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Re:Australia: Kids under 16 to be banned from social media a... by plagiarist on Thursday November 28, 2024 @08:18AM (#42265042)
> The legislation is vague on the technical details, although it does specifically mandate that platforms cannot use government-issued ID of any kind (including digital ID).

That's unexpectedly sane from a law like this. Hopefully they can figure out some zero-knowledge proof of age. (But then there's nothing stopping adults from creating and selling proof values to kids.)

Re:Australia: Kids under 16 to be banned from social media a... by stephen_g on Thursday November 28, 2024 @08:31AM (#42265126)
That wasn't in the original bill and it was only amended to add that yesterday, because it wouldn't get past the Conservative (Liberal/National Party) whose votes they needed to ram it through Parliament with almost no scrutiny otherwise (the hastily drafted bill only having been introduced the Friday before the final sitting week of the year).
Re:Australia: Kids under 16 to be banned from social media a... by plagiarist on Thursday November 28, 2024 @10:15AM (#42265800)
That's more of the sort of behavior one expects from legislators making broad surveillance apparatuses under guise of protecting children on the internet.
Re:Australia: Kids under 16 to be banned from social media a... by triceratops on Thursday November 28, 2024 @10:16AM (#42265806)
> But then there's nothing stopping adults from creating and selling proof values to kids

That's also true for alcohol and tobacco.