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    Millionen von Kindern und Jugendlichen verlieren den Zugang zu Konten, da Australiens weltweit erstes Social-Media-Verbot beginnt
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    Millionen von Kindern und Jugendlichen verlieren den Zugang zu Konten, da Australiens weltweit erstes Social-Media-Verbot beginnt


    Millionen von Kindern und Jugendlichen verlieren den Zugang zu Konten, da Australiens weltweit erstes Social-Media-Verbot beginnt

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/09/australia-under-16-social-media-ban-begins-apps-listed

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    1. Expensive-Horse5538 on

      This is a severley flawed law.

      Firstly, the law was rushed through Parliament without proper consultation with stakeholders.

      Secondly, the law rellies on social media companies enforcing it – given many of them aren’t able to enforce their own policies, I doubt they will be doing much better.

      Thirdly, it’s already been shown that the detection softwares in place can already be evaded eaisily.

      All it will do is just drive up the use of VPN’s, or people will migrate to smaller social media sites not covered by the ban,

    2. Lurk5FailOnSax on

      Government’s foolishly enacted laws driving the children into more risky internet. No. It can’t be.

    3. unreliable_yeah on

      Good, so now we can stop to regulate big tech so continue doing the damage to the rest of us. /s

      This law ignores the whole problem

    4. notabear87 on

      Curious to see how this is being actively enforced say…6 months from now.

    5. IncorrectAddress on

      Going to be interesting to see how this pans out for them, if it works, you can expect a roll-out everywhere else.

    6. LolaBaraba on

      Oldies thinking they can prevent teens from using technology, lol. Even China has working VPNs, and they’re the most extreme censors out there (apart from NK, which doesn’t have internet at all).

      This is all due to lazy parents who don’t want to bother to police their children, so they make a law affecting all the children.

    7. TidalHermit on

      The platform with adults who grew up broken by social media is against doing something against the social media that broke them.

    8. HasGreatVocabulary on

      Lots of Meta bots on reddit trying to make this sound like a bad bad thing

    9. ceiffhikare on

      After reading the article i did not see any sort of penalties or fines for the teens and the parents that are helping their kids break the law. This feels very one sided and one might think it is a money grab as much as it is about protecting the children. Are parents not held accountable for their children down under?

    10. AverageLiberalJoe on

      I have no problem verifying my age online. I have a problem with sharing that information with a platform. Invent a secure open source non profit that verifies via oauth and Im fine with it. In fact Id be all for it. Sorry not sending a pic of my driver license to fucking mark zuckerberg so i can look at marketplace.

    14. it0 on

      It is funny that everyone is in favor of banning but nobody wants to punish these companies making these toxic and predatory algorithms.

    15. rob3rtisgod on

      This is so much better than the UK give is your personal information law, which ended up exposing children to even more toxic social media.

      No I am not going to give you my personal ID to be kept on a non-secure database that will then be stolen and used for identity fraud.

    16. N3CR0T1C_V3N0M on

      “Australia has enacted a world-first ban on social media users under 16.. In unrelated news, social media reports incredible growth of several million new accounts in just hours, most definitely all adults.”

    17. dearbokeh on

      This’ll likely be as effective as abstinence programs.

      Monetary enforcement that increases with severity and number of infractions. It must also be greater than what they receive from breaking the law. $50m won’t cut it.

      This will just be the cost of doing business.

    18. AttonJRand on

      Its not just a social media ban. Its an ID law.

      Australians have to upload their ID’s to social media to access content now. How anyone is okay with that is beyond me.

    19. Grandkahoona01 on

      I’m not opposed to minors‘ access to social media being regulated. In fact that seems long over due. The problem is that I dont want to be sending my driver’s license to social media in order to use it. These companies are notorious for being lax with security.

    20. Sapere_aude75 on

      I don’t agree with this type of policy from an ethical perspective, as I believe this type of decision should be left up to parental discretion. That said, I have little doubt that it will be beneficial to them.

    21. BalleaBlanc on

      Wow, millions of children forced to interact in real life, that’s rude. /s

    22. phangtom on

      Censorship = Bad
      Censorship, West = Good

      Funny how people embrace authoritarianism as long as it’s the West that is pushing the agenda.

    23. upward_spiral17 on

      So I can expect that Australian youth will now reach college age with the ability to read and the concentration necessary to get through a short story. Perhaps intellect is not coming to an end.

    27. YorkieLon on

      Please work. The UK are currently discussing this. I want it gone for the children.

    28. TacoCatSupreme1 on

      Australia seems to have no age limit on destroying the reef and selling out all its minerals and mining to China

    29. Fred_Milkereit on

      and they ask themselves, ‘OMG, what are we supposed to do with our free time now?’ Which is good. Welcome to reality and the real world. Discover the world without a smartphone in front of your face.

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