And even if we agree, all you’ll ever hear from me is Fuck u/spez
'Social Media Account Ban'*
If they are so concerned why don't they force entire reddit youtube etc behind an age check to view
if they are so concerned why dont they stop sites / apps that run 100 cookies from tracking kids
*joke
Perhaps if some thought and care had been put into this ridiculous land grab by our government this kind of outcome could have been avoided.
I'm not giving Reddit a single bit of benefit of the doubt here, but by pushing back against this they may be helping us instead of pissing on us for a change.
Instead of using political capital to shove age verification down our throats, imagine if they used that same capital to restrict gambling advertising? Or implement strong data protection and privacy legislation? Or strong laws against IP theft by AI companies? The government could have pursued all sorts of positive policies to materially improve life for us, what we got instead was the conjunction of the masturbatory fantasies of the intelligence community (who have never enjoyed us having any privacy) and knee jerk reactionary conservatives who know best how to raise kids because of "muh feels".
This half baked, vague, wishy washy law has made my kids materially less safe online, all so the government can soft sell the idea that you should have to provide ID for every interaction online.
Australia is a nanny state censoring the internet.
Not really. The legislation is stupid but the big tech companies are predatory and needed to be regulated. As does the gambling industry. There is a long list of stuff Labor should be doing but mostly aren't because they are piss weak. They chose social media because it didn't upset any major supporters and it was judged to be popular with average voters.
It is just very poorly done. I have to go find a new music app now for the family as we can't all use Youtube Music Premium anymore so it is a waste of money. My kids youtube accounts were managed under family link and had comments disabled some content restrictions and no ads. The ads are as harmful as social media IMO - sexualising kids, creating insecurity over appearance, clothing, weight, pushing unhealthy food, gambling, divisive politics, consumerism.
I can use hacked youtube clients on some platforms but they are closed source from less trusted parties and could be a security risk. I can try and trick YT with vpns and a set of new accounts but thats going to be tricky. Making fake adult accounts is no good as I can't manage adult accounts under family link and apply the restrictions I want.
But reddit can fuck right off. Hope they get laughed out of court.
Very sensible take
Starting on Dec 27th Aussies will have to prove their age before using Google search. It's absurd.
I think it’s to sign in to google. But still that’s going to restrict access to information if you don’t verify.
Not reasonable :/
Only if they are signed into a Google account.
That’s a bit backwards. By that logic U16s could then just access whatever unrestricted if they don’t sign in?
Also can you still access the connected email or need to get a new one if you don’t verify? Dumb question but I’m not certain of how it all works
By that logic U16s could then just access whatever unrestricted if they don’t sign in?
Age-restricted results will be blurred by default unless you are logged in and meet the minimum age requirement. Those sites that are age-restricted will also require age assurance (porn, for example).
Also can you still access the connected email or need to get a new one if you don’t verify?
I'm not sure how Google will choose to implement it. Maybe age assurance won't be required at all unless you try to disable the new restrictions. In the case of app stores, for example, no age assurance will be required unless you want to search for R18+ apps.
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100% y'all screech once they come for fed shit.
this law covers the fediverse. aussie.zone now has a verification process
i agree with the above commenter: something should be done, but this is the wrong way to do it… it creates problems and effectively solves none
real vibes of
The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia.
- Malcom (cunt) Turnbull - our ex conservative PM
The middle ground would be making these companies comply with rules that stop them manipulating users, but we already know that these companies would rather cop the fine and do the bad things anyway.
Then increase the fines.
then they leave and the whole country is banned from reddit, nice!
Someone hasn't heard of virtual private networks (VPN)
Hearing in that Australia can straight up not classify a game and therefore ban it is outrageous.
The Mortal Kombat 9 virtue signaling
There’s a chance most of the historical bullshit and nonsense (I’m talking pre-bots) was 16 year olds and younger…
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