Landmark legislation sees the Australian government committed to the novel step of child protection by banning social media for under sixteens.

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    13 hours ago

    Unenforcible Law.

    Gotta require ID verifications and ban all VPNs in order to actually be enforcible.

    Surely, the website owners would never sell your information, right? Right?

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      Introducing friction with massive population groups like this is actually effective at bringing numbers down.

      Take the porn ID stuff in the US. Yes VPN usage is up but traffic is down as well. Not everyone is going to take the extra steps.

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      4 hours ago

      Put it on the parents. That’s enforceable, and the root of the problem…

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      8 hours ago

      Gotta require ID verifications

      that’s exactly what they are “evaluating” now along with “biometric (age and voice) estimation”.

      government, politicians and media are constructing a parallel reality for themselves.

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      Banning the Three Letter Word is unenforceable too. If you ban Open*** and Wireguard - too bad, China has done that and people developed obfuscation methods. Even if you try to ban talking about them, they won’t go extinct. If there’s a supply, there’s a demand.