Youtube is social media? What?
But then how Bluey will video call her grandparents??? /j
Stop calling it an under 16 ban
it’s age verification for fucking everyone
and the best part is Albo is losing preferred prime minister polls to a fucking potato because of this nonsense
Can’t wait to see how these geniuses plan on implementing this.
Ok. Smaller platforms like this here lemmy server don’t do anything because it’s expensive, or they are ethically opposed. They have no business in Australia and fines can’t be collected. Australian kids (and adults who want to be anonymous, or don’t like the government-mandated changes) flock to these platforms.
What now?
It gets banned/blocked, or sued for noncompliance for allowing Australian users without age verification. They’ll play whack a mole for decades, just like they have been for P2P file sharing.
Like a lot of post-911 legislation, it’s anti-privacy surveillance disguised as a way to ‘protect the children’. It’s absolute shit and we should absolutely be taking measures to anonymize our open source social media platforms further.
The only way I see that’d be possible is by requiring state id for it which is just mass surveillance.
Australia Card 2025 here we come! I expect better from the Labor party, this is some Scott Morrison grade shit right here.