Re:Australia proposes ban on social media for those under 16
by jumpei163 on Friday November 08, 2024 @01:01AM
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That's what I thought.
How do you verify the age? Verifying ID? That seems like another route that could go wrong. Just having a checkbox to confirm the age? Do a poll on this website to see how many people have visited an adult website when they were not...
As long as you have internet access, there will be a way.
I don't have a good proposal, but I feel this is more like a cultural issue than something we can simply fix by implementing law.
Re:Australia proposes ban on social media for those under 16
by squigz on Friday November 08, 2024 @11:29AM
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> I don't have a good proposal, but I feel this is more like a cultural issue than something we can simply fix by implementing law.
...Why not make the aspects of these sites that are so harmful illegal in general?
Let's suppose kids do get forced off the mainstream social networks with Australia legal entities (Meta, Goog, Bytedance, X?). What stops them from joining fringe social networks operated outside of Australia with even less oversight? Surely nothing bad could happen between kids on those networks.
Yes, the Australian government could DNS block them like they do torrent sites. But it really wouldn't be beyond teenagers to inform their friends about how to change DNS servers...