Comment on Australia social media ban hits 4.7 million teen accounts in first month

shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  perhaps a big total of 20

  the ban is so harsh it can be bypassed by saying you were born earlier and that’s it, so absolutely no one will be affected or care

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  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Isn’t Australia the totalitarian state where you must verify your identity to use social media? If so, then just saying you’re older won’t work. If not, then the law is completely pointless.

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    • shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not only Id. like many new Id verification systems, that have the ALT option of taking a selfie… Which is easily bypassed by any AI image, or searching for “picture of a man” and taking a “”““selfie””" of that.

      Or using a relative’s ID. As of now they don’t care to check if the ID or Picture matches the social media profile, I guess they (social media platforms) only care about complying even if the implementation is flawy

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