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Re:Australia's social media ban for children takes effect in... by ndriscoll on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @05:13PM (#46224653)
Things used to be more scrutinized. e.g. look at the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Hot Coffee controversy and legal fallout over sexual content that existed in the game data files but could only be accessed by modding the game, at which point you could just mod the content in. Porn websites also used to generally put anything explicit behind a credit card barrier, and there was an attempt to require that that the supreme court struck down.
Re:Australia's social media ban for children takes effect in... by whimsicalism on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @07:03PM (#46225878)
maybe the early aughts, none of this was the case when i was a teen it was basically unencumbered access
Re:Australia's social media ban for children takes effect in... by heavyset_go on Thursday December 11, 2025 @04:29AM (#46229344)
That was just a handful of loud busybodies, and society was smart enough then to not hand them the legal reins to placate them.