Australia's Social Media Ban for People Under 16 Takes Effect

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Comment by demarq 11 hours ago

If all the kids start pretending to be grownups, they end up escaping all the protections put in place to protect kids in the first place.

In football we call this an own goal

Comment by add-sub-mul-div 10 hours ago

Not really, it gives them justification to more thoroughly remove privacy and anonymity in order to make sure the age and identity of the user are more confidently known.

Comment by thebigspacefuck 12 hours ago

https://archive.ph/Ba2JR

Comment by bob_theslob646 12 hours ago

How does a country effectively enforce this? Below is how they propose doing this. If you don't have any form of verification of your actual age, it's seems like they are just going on what the user says ( self reports). How can a company be found liable if a used lies about their age?

>the days leading to the ban, some teenagers said that they were prompted to verify their ages using a facial analysis feature, but that it gave inaccurate estimates. The law also states that companies cannot ask users to provide government-issued identification as the only way to prove their age because of privacy concerns.

Comment by Avicebron 12 hours ago

> How can a company be found liable if a used lies about their age?

You make them bleed money when you find they are in violation. They either figure it out or they go under as a company. There isn't a natural law saying companies have a right to exist.

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Comment by NoPicklez 11 hours ago

Go and read the actual report of what the eSafety commissioner is requiring.

The company can't be found liable if they have put in reasonable age verification technology, particularly if the user lied about their age or found a way to circumvent the restrictions.

They clearly aren't going by just what the user says as the companies have implemented age verification tools that try to do that detection.

Comment by t0lo 11 hours ago

How can seatbelts be enforced? This is preposterous and imbecilic- if there isn't a policeman inside every car checking every minute how will we make sure that people are wearing them. Clearly there is no point in trying!

Comment by wiredpancake 10 hours ago

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Comment by ChrisArchitect 10 hours ago

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46209372

Comment by nacozarina 11 hours ago

this is an egregious violation of their civil rights.

the law of unintended consequences looms large.

Comment by NoPicklez 11 hours ago

Like what?

Kids not being able to do particular things until they're of age? That's much of an egregious violation of their civil rights.

Comment by bccdee 8 hours ago

I think you could argue teenagers have a right to discuss political issues in the public forum. That's basically the definition of good citizenship, and (for better or worse) social media is the public forum of the day. Kids don't go from zero rights at 17 to full rights at 18; minors' rights are limited, but they do have rights.

I dunno if that'd fly in Australian courts though.