Australia bans social media for children under 16

[Yel]

Big tech will have a year to implement it if it goes through the Senate, all state governments have approved it. I'm not sure how it will work with collecting data and how effective it will actually be as under 16's have little difficulty getting age restricted products so getting access to age restricted services is far easier to get around.

But at least they're trying to do something. It's things like this you'd expect the EU to be working on but in reality they're very ineffective and don't achieve much. Australia is doing so much more to try and push through things like this.

They haven't mentioned whatsapp, but now facebook has added stuff like stories and following public figures they've made it a social media app. I expect they'll release communications only version.

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[Snippysnips]

There is no way this is working, I'd say they might have had better luck doing it as a under 13s ban possibly under 14s as many parents might have helped in with that, but age 15/16 when they are addicted to it? Not a chance are they going manage to keep them off

Kids these days know better about tech than most adults an know exactly how to get round every restriction put in place, we had blocks on our school computers for websites an got on them an that was back in the days where you didn't have all these yt vlogs helping you

Personally the better way to handle this is for social sites to be told then need to block more content, porn, anything that mimics porn, dangerous acts like these "prank" things, an people harassing/bullying etc an have a stricter force on when someone reports someone, right now way to much isn't dealt with, I've reported people putting things on train tracks an recording trains going over it to be told the video didn't break any of their rules, I've reported animal an child abuse to be told again the video didn't break rules an also reported porn, so the social sites are more to blame when they know kids are on them

 

[Yel]

As expected it's coming in, will be interesting to see how this plays out. Most countries are glad Australia is the first one to try it out.

All this data big twch already shares with governments without a court order so I wouldn't want any of them having my id even if I've done nothing wrong.

 

[wideopenspace]

I think it will kill social media as a lot of genuine individuals won't want to provide their ID to large tech companies. There will be ways around it such as using VPNs etc. Maybe we'll go backwards to forums and MSM messenger!

 

[Snippysnips]

FB is a min age of 13 an you have 8 year olds on it

Good luck Australia, you have absolutely no chance of this, not when kids are better at tech than adults an will easily find a way around it, an how do you even begin to be able to tell what is real ID an what is fake ID, drinking age is 18 here an at 16/17 we were using fake IDs to get into places an getting away with it an that was showing it to an actual person at the door