Australia's social media ban for children takes effect in world first

Re:Australia's social media ban for children takes effect in... by lbrito on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @07:54PM (#46226271)

(b) a small fraction of kids branching off into fringe networks that are off the radar and will take them to very dark places very quickly.

This already happens, and I don't see how a law like this would significantly change the volume of edgelords and incels funneling into imageboards

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Re:Australia's social media ban for children takes effect in... by heavyset_go on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @08:33PM (#46226590)

There's internet culture precedent for this. 4chan itself has an early history of picking up leftovers from communities that were banned on other sites/forums/platforms.

4chan's origin itself fits that archetype, as well. It was created when a hentai subforum got banned on a larger forum, and the community moved over to the new imageboard.

It acts as sponge for more than just edgelords.

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