Parliament delivers a performance piece of legislative 'enshittification' that raises more questions than answers (www.abc.net.au)

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Annabel Crabb's analysis of parliamentary goings on this week.

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[-] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm glad they have put the onus of social media platforms, however I think there is no feasible way to make this work short of requiring 100 points of ID be provided to your social media account to prove age. As much as I'd like to share that information with every platform I think I'll pass.

Further to this, how do you police that on something like the fediverse? Is @Aussie.zone going to shut down because the onus of checking IDs too much for a small social media provider? What about IRC?

I assume there is going to be a series of marches consisting of a million angry children and their parents protesting the loss of Minecraft and Roblox ..

[-] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The legislation seems to exclude everything for business purposes, if a child is selling skins on Roblox are they then entitled to an account?

It also excludes advertising, if all a user's interactions are being sold by the provider to advertisers and that being their primary business model, does that mean the account is off the hook?

On another note I love the definition for 'material' in the existing act .. shows a rock solid understanding of the internet.

[-] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

Can't see where they state the definition for 'material', what does it say?

[-] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago

Hahaha it's in the original act and it's hilarious.

material means material:
(a) whether in the form of text; or
(b) whether in the form of data; or
(c) whether in the form of speech, music or other sounds; or
(d) whether in the form of visual images (moving or otherwise); or
(e) whether in any other form; or
(f) whether in any combination of forms.