We’ve been covering Australia’s under-16 social media ban since before it went into effect, first noting the confusion and obvious implementation problems as pretty much everyone realized it was a total mess, and then documenting how the ban was actively harming kids with disabilities by cutting them off from critical support communities.
Australia’s Teen Social Media Ban Is Just Training A Generation In The Art Of The Workaround
Submitted 21 hours ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Why not remove all age restrictions then? I mean, you can get drunk or start smoking as a teen if you really want to. Yet many don’t, because is iconvenient.
And I also don’t buy this ‘kids get cut off’ shit at all. You can use Youtube without an account, no problem. You still have easy access to news and websites. You can still network with other people and join, for example, group chats or TS servers. Heck, it’s like, what? 10 Platforms that are (semi-)banned? Half of the people on earth grew up without social media at all, yet some people talk about this like it’s the air they breath.
That very fact just reinforces my suport for the ban a lot. If you really need social media, just go to the fediverse dammit. It is incidentally not banned and almost guaranteed to be better than the dataharvesting ragebait shitshow with gambling ads that’s mainstream social media these days.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
You fundamentaly misunderstand the issue with it. Nobody needs to collect IDs of every single adult to prevent kids from buying cigarettes or alcohol. Yet that’s what is happening with social media and “adult” content as they are convenient vectors to justity invasive data collection.
I would support a complete ban for everyone as it would eliminate the data collection, but since this not about kids, but about that data collection in the first place that will never happen.
misk@piefed.social 11 hours ago
Nobody needs to collect your ID when they sell you alcohol but they need to see it.