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Spitzspot, to technology in Australia is the first nation to ban social media for under-16s.
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Now do 16+

Robin,

In case you forgot, Lemmy is social media

glowie,
@glowie@h4x0r.host avatar

Le bad

Zachariah,

antisocial media

Lupus,

Honestly - fine with me, tear it all down.

UltraGiGaGigantic,
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Sounds like youre deleting your account soon.

Goodbye.

Kaboom,

Do you really want 15 year olds on lemmy?

jawa21,

Huh? It is a kind of forum. Not even close to social media.

explodicle,
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Old people can use Tor

faeempress,
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Do they know what Tor is?

UltraGiGaGigantic,
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It has been 3 hours as of this comment. And Spitzspot has yet to delete their account.

Blackmist, to technology in Australia is the first nation to ban social media for under-16s.

Oh those poor kids.

I remember when we banned porn for the under 18s and now nobody under 18 can access porn.

CrimeDad, to technology in Australia is the first nation to ban social media for under-16s.

What happens if an Australian kid starts running their own Pixelfed or Lemmy site?

muntedcrocodile,
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We are yet to see. My guess is they charge the kid for providing social media to an underaged user (themselves). Will be very interesting to watch ngl. Also idk how they gonna implement it cos i sure as shit aint handing over my id to the social media companies.

shortwavesurfer, to technology in Australia is the first nation to ban social media for under-16s.

Australia is the first nation to fail to ban social media for under 16s.

ayyy, to technology in Australia is the first nation to ban social media for under-16s.

Now kids will be forced to hide being a victim of cyber-bullying from their parents. Great work!

uis,

If their parents are social media

SocialMediaRefugee, to technology in Australia is the first nation to ban social media for under-16s.

In further news, millions of teenagers have become experts at vpns and bypassing online restrictions

dubyakay,

Australia fighting the good fight to produce tech savvy youth

samus12345, to technology in Australia is the first nation to ban social media for under-16s.

Good luck with that.

Rekorse,

It doesnt need to be 100% effective.

samus12345,

https://media.tenor.com/DJGWQIVi7G4AAAAe/pokemon-not-very-effective.png

aesthelete, to technology in Australia is the first nation to ban social media for under-16s.

All of a sudden their test scores start going through the roof.

viking,
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Attention span >3 minutes would be something already.

UltraGiGaGigantic, to technology in Australia is the first nation to ban social media for under-16s.
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The Australian government is to cowardly to regulate social media to be healthy for all ages.

uis,

Yes.

IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol, to technology in Australia is the first nation to ban social media for under-16s.

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?

john89, to technology in Australia is the first nation to ban social media for under-16s.

Should be left up to the parents.

HowAbt2morrow, to technology in Australia is the first nation to ban social media for under-16s.

Fair dinkem mate. How are they gonna regulate this?

ABCDE,

Dinkum

HowAbt2morrow,

Cheese mate

Sibbo, to technology in Australia is the first nation to ban social media for under-16s.

Are they still allowed on Lemmy?

MudMan, to technology in Australia is the first nation to ban social media for under-16s.

Yeah, I hear they're not allowed to watch porn until 18 either and that works flawlessly.

Beyond questions of implementation this to me sounds like maybe we're replacing Instagram with Fortnite, but it sure will be interesting to see how it plays out. I guess trying something is better than trying nothing.

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