Nah, they didn’t. The legislation is bad but it was driven by research into mobile phone/social media addiction and harms to teenagers. There is a bit f a satanic panic angle but there is enough substance that I think we have to take it seriously. The target is algorithmic addiction machines run by huge predatory companies. Any impact on sites like aussie.zone is unintended and nobody cares about a self hosted forum or list for neurodivergent kids.

The problem is people are fucking stupid and they all jumped to evil shit like Facebook and everything else died. I have to go out of my way to find out anything in my local community with sports, school etc because people are moronic sheep. The government is targeting the right bunch of unethical cunts even if they are not doing it well.