Submitted 2 days ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-24/digital-dilemna-social-media-age-ban-platforms/105807302
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/37984564
The comments here seem to be missing a salient point.
In order to determine if a user is under 16, you need to determine that for every single user … including you!
This means that your personal data will be harvested in order to determine if you are over 16 or not.
Maybe people over 16 shouldn’t be on the internet either
to those wondering “why Github?” because it’s not about protecting 16 year olds doing pull requests it’s about getting YOUR data/IDs. They don’t know whose under 16 or over 16 to access said sites so they need the IDs of EVERYONE. that’s all this is. it has nothing to do with protecting kids.
If I was a government or some firm that harvets Data I would absolutely drool at potentially having a source that is Github to get said info. I would LOVE to harvest info of developers, coders, etc.
Yep, they get your ID and can associate your account and activity to your person. These are always anti-privacy laws, not “protect the children” laws. That’s just what they say to get people to give up their freedoms.
And there we have it, a manipulative government that grins at the fact that we all let this oppression to go through.
This is all a result of our naivety, we let our age discrimination to prosper, and now we’re going to be left with big brother watching our every move.
github? really?
I met my wife on GitHub. (/s)
Github? Wtf.
You must be 18 or older to submit a PR
gotta keep the kids safe from pinterest lmao
Can we keep me safe from Pinterest? I would really like to exclude it from my search results on a permanent basis without having to explicitly filter it in my query.
I’ve got Pinterest filtered out of searches, this has been a feature of kagi for ages
You joke but pedophiles use Pinterest to stalk and coerce young girls.
Investigation: How Pinterest drives men to little girls’ images - nbcnews.com/…/pinterest-algorithm-young-girls-vid…
oh wow this is crazy.
That’s a weird list. I’ve never considered GitHub to be social media.
Anything is social media if you try to censor hard enough.
Lemme guess, the Fediverse is going to end up on that list too?
Absolutely.
Probably every Lemmy Client will have a PEGI-16 warning/restriction.
And even your OS blocking non-Windows, non-Apple, and non-Android OSes from being legally available because only Windows, Apple, and Android can age-verify or some dystopian crap like that? (good luck with that happening)
Is Australia trying to out-OSA the UK here? Steam is a fucking store front, GitHub is a place where you put Code, and Under Sixteens shouldn’t be allowed on Dating Apps anyway. What the fuck?
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.
Uhuh, and who uses steam as a social media site in practice outside of comments in the workshop?
Steam has the Community where user interaction and user generated content can be posted.
By that logic the following sites are social media sites:
God help you if they agegate Wikipedia because that’s the point you bring out the pitchforks.
The world is going to shit
Doesn’t it already include YouTube and TikTok?
And Pornhub
That is a list of things that are social media, or have aspects of the platform that are social, and contain UGC.
Peter_Arbeitslos@feddit.org 2 days ago
even?
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 2 days ago
Damn so I can’t set my dating preference to from 9 to 14 anymore :(
Will have to settle for 16 year olds
/s
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah…not even the /s saves that comment from being ick.
Modest_Toxic@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Dammit not the dating apps!
Ironfist79@lemmy.world 2 days ago
How will Ted Cruz find dates now?
devfuuu@lemmy.world [bot] 2 days ago
Oh no