Comment on Meta starts kicking Australian children off Instagram and Facebook
jobbies@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Usually I’m against this sort of thing but hear me out:
- it’ll at least keep SOME kids off social media
- "kids will just use VPNs" >> some will, but maybe govs will finally realise how stupid trying to block things are and actually start regulating social media properly
- "kids will just join other social medias" >> not great but maybe that’ll help break meta’s dominance?
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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We’re seeing in real time that some (US) states that pass these stupid age verification laws are already going after VPNs instead of realizing their law is dumb.
I can guarantee they’re going to try to completely outlaw VPNs before they do any kind of meaningful regulation on social media, when they can use that as a massive data warehouse by making favorable decisions to the ligarcha running them.