Australia Under-16 Social Media Ban: Unintended Consequences

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• hanrahan@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Something like 450k Snap accounts where closed because of this, interestingly 450k new Snap accounts were opened

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  • No1@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I wonder how much you’d be able to ‘qualify’ as over 16 just by changing your first name.

    eg, pick one of the most popular names from the 1950s to 1990s when you register lol.

    For fun, I looked at the baby name trend for Ian vs Noah, and it’s pretty obvious who was born when.

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• ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sorry your corrupt petrostate government passed a ‘hit yourself in the dick with a hammer to protect the children’ law

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• TheHolm@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Paywalled article

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  • CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh sorry, my bee. I dunno why I didn’t hit it. I’m not using my usual archived because for some reason they’re does-ing some random dev’s personal blog and I don’t wanna have to go figure out what’s going on — do you have another you like?

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m not using my usual archiver because for some reason they’re ddos-ing some random dev’s personal blog

      Fwiw they seem to have stopped that. At least when I checked a couple of days ago.

      web.archive.org is a little more work to use and sometimes fails on paywalls that archive.today/.is doesn’t, but it’s 100% morally upstanding as an archival tool.

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