Comment on U16 Social Media Ban - Senate 1hr debate before the vote, some time tonight on the livestream
Cypher@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I have warned about this. Access to online services will soon be locked behind your mygov id.
These plans have been in motion for a long time.
quokka1@mastodon.au 2 months ago
@Cypher @rcbrk With a nice link between any nicks/profiles/gamer-tags you have and your actual MyGovID.
Mmmm mmm mmm smell that lovely data!
Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Games are explicitly excluded from this law.
Which is kinda fucking ridiculous, as pointed out in debate, because in-game chat is often some of the most toxic you’ll encounter.
NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 2 months ago
tbh I’m more concerned about kids on cod or battle.net than insta chat (research has found a lot of kids using Instagram for absurd numbers of hours are actually just chatting).
Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 months ago
In Labor’s defense (as loath as I am to defend them for this), many parents seem to be concerned less with the content of the messages than with the amount of time their children are spending obsessing over it. Which is much harder for them to control on a phone app than in-game console chat.
Still a parenting issue IMO and not a matter for the legislature.