Comment on Australia’s under 16s social media ban could extend to Reddit, Twitch, Kick, Roblox, Steam, GitHub, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, Discord and even dating apps

abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I mean, Steam does have a large social aspect as well. Community content is often aimed at the 16+ crowd. Hell, I’ve been called the n-word by 11 year olds multiple times on Steam. Denying that Steam has social media is just disingenuous.

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  • abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Uhuh, and who uses steam as a social media site in practice outside of comments in the workshop?

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• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Steam has the Community where user interaction and user generated content can be posted.

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  • abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    By that logic the following sites are social media sites:

    • Wikipedia
    • OpenStreetMap
    • News sites with comment sections
    • Duolingo
    • Amazon

    God help you if they agegate Wikipedia because that’s the point you bring out the pitchforks.

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    • Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      youre making the common mistake of thinking these laws are coherent

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    • DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Good luck age-gating the local copies of Wikipedia for anyone who downloaded it.

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