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Australia bans social media for under 16s
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this post was submitted on 28 Nov 2024
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I support this move. Some here are delusionally arguing that this impacts privacy - the sort of data social media firms collect on teenagers is egregiously extensive regardless. This is good support for their mental health and development.
Government provided open id service which guarantees age. Website gets trusted authority signed token witch contains just the age. We can do this safely. We have the technology. They could even do it only once on registration.
Digital id's exist already in the EU, and many countries run a sign on service already. We aren't far from this.
No. I don't want governments to know what social media I use, nor do I want social media to know what country I'm a citizen of. I don't want any connection between the two.
I'm pretty sure they all know this already.
Sure, but I don't want to hand it over on a silver platter, especially for my kids.
This ban is a wake up call to Tech Industry to implement and enforce rules against hate speech, grooming, fake news, etc. They surely cannot verify the age of a human without any official ID made in the real world. This leads to other problems but that's not the concern of the government! Social Media wants it's users, not the government.
what? Why would tech industry care? If anything it'll have the reverse effect and dimiss tech role in brain rott because "see, kids are not on it! It's all good here"
This is good pseudo-science.
How can you look at the state of things pretty much everywhere since social media has become so ubiquitous and think that it has no effect on people, young people especially? It's full of hate, envy, propaganda, and brainwashing
Strange that the adults don't want those benefits for themselves also.