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Re:Australia proposes ban on social media for those under 16 by jumpei163 on Friday November 08, 2024 @01:01AM (#42084563)
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.

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Re:Australia proposes ban on social media for those under 16 by squigz on Friday November 08, 2024 @11:29AM (#42088093)
> 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?

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