Australia is the first nation to ban social media for under-16s.
Landmark legislation sees the Australian government committed to the novel step of child protection by banning social media for under sixteens.
SocialMediaRefugee, In further news, millions of teenagers have become experts at vpns and bypassing online restrictions
aesthelete, All of a sudden their test scores start going through the roof.
viking, 
Attention span >3 minutes would be something already.
samus12345, Good luck with that.
Rekorse, It doesnt need to be 100% effective.
samus12345,
UltraGiGaGigantic, 
The Australian government is to cowardly to regulate social media to be healthy for all ages.
uis, Yes.
ayyy, 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
HowAbt2morrow, Fair dinkem mate. How are they gonna regulate this?
ABCDE, Dinkum
HowAbt2morrow, Cheese mate
Spitzspot, 
Now do 16+
Robin, In case you forgot, Lemmy is social media
glowie, 
Le bad
Zachariah, antisocial media
Lupus, Honestly - fine with me, tear it all down.
UltraGiGaGigantic, 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, 
Old people can use Tor
faeempress, 
Do they know what Tor is?
UltraGiGaGigantic, It has been 3 hours as of this comment. And Spitzspot has yet to delete their account.
Blackmist, Oh those poor kids.
I remember when we banned porn for the under 18s and now nobody under 18 can access porn.
Sibbo, Are they still allowed on Lemmy?
CrimeDad, What happens if an Australian kid starts running their own Pixelfed or Lemmy site?
muntedcrocodile, 
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.
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