Reddit files legal challenge against social media ban for under-16s

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• kingofras@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And even if we agree, all you’ll ever hear from me is Fuck u/spez

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• Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Australia is a nanny state censoring the internet.

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  • shirro@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not really. The legislation is stupid but the big tech companies are predatory and needed to be regulated. As does the gambling industry.

    It is just very poorly done. I have to go find a new music app now for the family as we can’t all use Youtube Music Premium anymore so it is a waste of money. My kids youtube accounts were managed under family link and had comments disabled some content restrictions and no ads. The ads are as harmful as social media IMO - sexualising kids, creating insecurity over appearance, clothing, weight, pushing unhealthy food, gambling, divisive politics.

    I can use hacked youtube clients on some platforms but they are closed source from less trusted parties and could be a security risk. I can try and trick YT with vpns and a set of new accounts but thats going to be tricky. Making fake adult accounts is no good as I can’t manage adult accounts under family link and apply the restrictions I want.

    But reddit can fuck right off. Hope they get laughed out of court.

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    • BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Very sensible take

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    • CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      100% y’all screech once they come for fed shit.

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    • indomara@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Starting on Dec 27th Aussies will have to prove their age before using Google search. It’s absurd.

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    • Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You could try alternativeto.net/software/quobuz/about/

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  • MoreZombies@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The middle ground would be making these companies comply with rules that stop them manipulating users, but we already know that these companies would rather cop the fine and do the bad things anyway.

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    • Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Then increase the fines.

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  • Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    from my pov if being a nanny state lets kids be more like kids and less like little phone addicts having their dopamines blown I don’t mind it

    there are other countries looking at doing the same

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAzFCwCkAgI

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    • Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You can regulate big tech without banning support groups.

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    • dan@upvote.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Parents should be doing a better parenting, rather than relying on the state to do it for them.

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  • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Hearing in that Australia can straight up not classify a game and therefore ban it is outrageous.

    The Mortal Kombat 9 virtue signaling

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• shads@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Perhaps if some thought and care had been put into this ridiculous land grab by our government this kind of outcome could have been avoided.

  I’m not giving Reddit a single bit of benefit of the doubt here, but by pushing back against this they may be helping us instead of pissing on us for a change.

  Instead of using political capital to shove age verification down our throats, imagine if they used that same capital to restrict gambling advertising? Or implement strong data protection and privacy legislation? Or strong laws against IP theft by AI companies? The government could have pursued all sorts of positive policies to materially improve life for us, what we got instead was the conjunction of the masturbatory fantasies of the intelligence community (who have never enjoyed us having any privacy) and knee jerk reactionary conservatives who know best how to raise kids because of “muh feels”.

  This half baked, vague, wishy washy law has made my kids materially less safe online, all so the government can soft sell the idea that you should have to provide ID for every interaction online.

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• ozzy@olio.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  ‘Social Media Account Ban’*
  If they are so concerned why don’t they force entire reddit youtube etc behind an age check to view
  if they are so concerned why dont they stop sites / apps that run 100 cookies from tracking kids
  *joke

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• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There’s a chance most of the historical bullshit and nonsense (pre bots) was 16 year olds and younger…

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