Comment on Five young teens on life under Australia’s social media ban: ‘It’s not a big deal any more’

• WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I was mostly teasing. I do believe, as you seem to, that rights are eroded from the edges and that is one reason it is important to protect activities we disagree with. 'Protect the kids" is often used to deny rights to adults but kids are legitimately protected by the laws of society from a lot of predatory things. The social media ban doesn’t stop adults from doing anything or make them do anything so it doesn’t fit the case for sneaky control like cisa or gun control in the US or chat control in the EU. I don’t think advertisers should be able to advertise directly to children. Teams of human psychology and behavior experts crafting the most addictive product available and being able to constantly live A/B test their newest ideas is bad for kids. It’s bad for adults too but to each their own.

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  • freedickpics@lemmy.ml ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The social media ban doesn’t stop adults from doing anything or make them do anything

    Besides have to submit ID documents or a scan of their faces to companies that routinely sell or leak that data… Why do supporters of this law always just ignore that part?

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    • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Have yet to have a single account ask me for or do any of this.

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      • freedickpics@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Doesn’t mean it’s not happening

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    • WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But you don’t in Australia? The digital verification schemes are bad too but they can theoretically be done in a privacy respecting way.

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      • freedickpics@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I can’t access that site with my VPN but I’m aware that the law technically doesn’t say they need to use PII. But that’s how websites are doing it anyway

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