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Re:Australia's 3G Shutdown – Why your 4G/5G Phone is now Blo... by dietr1ch on Sunday November 10, 2024 @08:11PM (#42103779)
I really don't get it. Everytime I read about Australian technology it's an article that I'd still find believable after replacing "Australia" with "North Korea".
Re:Australia's 3G Shutdown – Why your 4G/5G Phone is now Blo... by immibis on Sunday November 10, 2024 @08:25PM (#42103835)
Australia will be the first Western country to block Tor, but I can't predict when.
Re:Australia's 3G Shutdown – Why your 4G/5G Phone is now Blo... by user_7832 on Sunday November 10, 2024 @09:08PM (#42104058)
If Australia becomes the first Western country to block it… it would be quite an achievement haha
Re:Australia's 3G Shutdown – Why your 4G/5G Phone is now Blo... by immibis on Sunday November 10, 2024 @09:50PM (#42104236)
The capital W is there for a reason.
Re:Australia's 3G Shutdown – Why your 4G/5G Phone is now Blo... by jgord on Sunday November 10, 2024 @08:29PM (#42103871)
well thats perfectly logical IF you want to prevent under-16s from using social media.
Re:Australia's 3G Shutdown – Why your 4G/5G Phone is now Blo... by ruthmarx on Monday November 11, 2024 @02:20AM (#42105111)
First with a social credit score most likely.
Re:Australia's 3G Shutdown – Why your 4G/5G Phone is now Blo... by immibis on Monday November 11, 2024 @10:31AM (#42107832)
The USA beat them to that, but they don't use the word "social"
Re:Australia's 3G Shutdown – Why your 4G/5G Phone is now Blo... by anomaly_ on Sunday November 10, 2024 @08:39PM (#42103927)
Wait until you read about the efforts by the current left-wing government to block social media for children. Which is basically an attempt to deanonymise the internet.
Re:Australia's 3G Shutdown – Why your 4G/5G Phone is now Blo... by dvsfish on Sunday November 10, 2024 @09:04PM (#42104043)
It's actually an attempt to block social media for children. There's no ulterior motives. It will have the consequence of deanonymisation but it's not an attempt to achieve that.
Re:Australia's 3G Shutdown – Why your 4G/5G Phone is now Blo... by hedvig23 on Monday November 11, 2024 @03:06AM (#42105311)
Care to expand on the good faith premise and methodology proposed?
Re:Australia's 3G Shutdown – Why your 4G/5G Phone is now Blo... by tacocataco on Monday November 11, 2024 @02:21PM (#42109726)
> . It will have the consequence of deanonymisation but it's not an attempt to achieve that.

How about regulating all social media to be healthy for all ages to use? The social media corporations should lose freedom, not the citizens. (IMO)

Re:Australia's 3G Shutdown – Why your 4G/5G Phone is now Blo... by dvsfish on Monday November 18, 2024 @07:14PM (#42178749)
I don't think Australia has the power to do that. The world is full of unhealthy things that we prohibit from children. It's a popular idea, with most people in favour of a ban for kids.
Re:Australia's 3G Shutdown – Why your 4G/5G Phone is now Blo... by IntelMiner on Sunday November 10, 2024 @10:39PM (#42104429)
Labor is a lot of things. Left-wing sadly isn't one of them anymore
Re:Australia's 3G Shutdown – Why your 4G/5G Phone is now Blo... by melbourne_mat on Monday November 11, 2024 @03:03PM (#42110039)
That only matters to people who use social media. It's not like you need an id card to use the Internet
Re:Australia's 3G Shutdown – Why your 4G/5G Phone is now Blo... by averageRoyalty on Sunday November 10, 2024 @09:05PM (#42104046)
You likely don't know very much about North Korea then.
Re:Australia's 3G Shutdown – Why your 4G/5G Phone is now Blo... by Aeolun on Sunday November 10, 2024 @10:02PM (#42104286)
Not necessarily. It'd be much harder to replace "North Korea" with "Australia" when you look at news that's actually from North Korea.
Re:Australia's 3G Shutdown – Why your 4G/5G Phone is now Blo... by fakedang on Monday November 11, 2024 @01:11AM (#42104884)
Here's the issue with North Korea - they don't use technology :D.

Maybe replacing Australia with their new paymasters in China makes more sense?

Re:Australia's 3G Shutdown – Why your 4G/5G Phone is now Blo... by dietr1ch on Monday November 11, 2024 @01:47AM (#42104983)
> ..they (NK) don't use technology :D.

idk, there's RedStar OS, but no Kangaroo OS (tbf few countries have their own distro)