Australia’s under 16s social media ban could extend to Reddit, Twitch, Kick, Roblox, Steam, GitHub, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, Discord and even dating apps

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• sleen@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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• DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Absolutely.
    Probably every Lemmy Client will have a PEGI-16 warning/restriction.

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• rozodru@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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• abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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?

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  • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Uhuh, and who uses steam as a social media site in practice outside of comments in the workshop?

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Steam has the Community where user interaction and user generated content can be posted.

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    • abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      By that logic the following sites are social media sites:

      • Wikipedia
      • OpenStreetMap
      • News sites with comment sections
      • Duolingo
      • Amazon

      God help you if they agegate Wikipedia because that’s the point you bring out the pitchforks.

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• REDACTED@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Github? Wtf.

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  • lando55@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You must be 18 or older to submit a PR

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• answersplease77@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And Pornhub

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s a weird list. I’ve never considered GitHub to be social media.

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  • PoopMonster@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Anything is social media if you try to censor hard enough.

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• pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  github? really?

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  • collapse_already@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I met my wife on GitHub. (/s)

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• vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe people over 16 shouldn’t be on the internet either

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• kokesh@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The world is going to shit

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• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That is a list of things that are social media, or have aspects of the platform that are social, and contain UGC.

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• darkkite@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  gotta keep the kids safe from pinterest lmao

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  • Meron35@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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…

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    • darkkite@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      oh wow this is crazy.

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  • collapse_already@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • mmmac@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve got Pinterest filtered out of searches, this has been a feature of kagi for ages

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• FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Doesn’t it already include YouTube and TikTok?

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• Peter_Arbeitslos@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  and even dating apps

  even?

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  • Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah…not even the /s saves that comment from being ick.

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  • Modest_Toxic@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dammit not the dating apps!

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    • Ironfist79@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How will Ted Cruz find dates now?

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    • devfuuu@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh no

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