Australia's Social Media Ban

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Run-around way to get Internet IDs into place along with Digital Social Credit Score.

Australia is scarier than Great Britain in terms of incremental Tyranny.

Look, it's not about kids verifying their age.....It's Everyone Verifying Who They Are to Access Social Media. They'll take it a step further and say the Internet needs personal ID to access, plus need a credit score to determine if you should be awarded or punished for onl8ne and offline activities

^^^How do I know this? Because this describes current Chinese society. That's What China Does As I Type This. Yes, it's a cool ass country with all the tech and it's safe and this and that, but adopting these techniques for social control will swiftly undermine what it means to be American in terms of freedom.

You can maybe make an argument for porn sites, but social media will be straw for the camel.

Stop.

Wasn't you on here pushing info wars for years and all their conspiracies talking about balanced media intake and being objective. I haven't seen you post since the covid hoaxes fell apart.

The internet needs chaperons for fools.

 

[newworldafro]

Stop.

Wasn't you on here pushing info wars for years and all their conspiracies talking about balanced media intake and being objective. I haven't seen you post since the covid hoaxes fell apart.

The internet needs chaperons for fools.

1. MSNBC and CNN are going out of business, not IW with its "conspiracy theory" ass face.

2. Covid19 is up to 10 boosters as of today. How many boosters are you up to breh? If not 10 boosters you are Anti-Vax. Sounds like Covid narrative already fell apart.

3. Shiit, IW is typically years/months/weeks/days ahead of releasing truthful news compared to the likes of "Ya Fired" media like CNN and MSNBC. So I guess CNN and MSNBC got Biden "elected" with Russian Collusion conspiracy theory then

4. Internet "needs chaperones"?...So you admitting you don't like the 1st Amendment and support Tyranny to dictate what you read, hear a see for yourself and everyone.
Sounds Like you want to be a Lil Tyrant.

 

[Dorian Breh]

Devils advocate, social media is not a right. There would be less trolls and hate and propaganda if people knew they would be tracked.

But typing this I beat my own argument because maybe be need social for justice, anti govt rhetoric and galvanizing - but which one happens more?

What is out of tough about a ban?

Isn’t it easier to get on social media normally then to download and pay for a VPN (we are talking about kids right?)

If this is successful in getting kids off facebook or tiktok I dont think theyll stop engaging in "social media". It will just be different harder to regulate and find websites designed to circumvent these restrictions.

If youre a fourteen year old raised online and they tell you you cant go on Instagram any more, youre gonna spend all your time trying to get around that ban.

And I'm not sure whatever circumvention methods pop up will be better than what weve got already.

As a sidenote: I don't use any social media except here if that counts.

 

[get these nets]

12/10/25

Australia social media watchdog sees common cause with US as age ban begins​

SYDNEY, Dec 10 (Reuters) - The regulator overseeing Australia's world-first teenage social media ban rejected the "technological exceptionalism" championed by mostly U.S.-based platforms and said a groundswell of American parents wanted similar measures.
eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said Australia was entitled to restrict access to social media, just as it applied safety rules to any imported good, and added that many American parents had decried a lack of equivalent guardrails there.


The comments show the regulator framing the Australian law as a step toward a common goal and shrugging off complaints by some of the world's biggest tech firms and senior U.S. lawmakers who have called the Australian law, with its corporate fines of up to A$49.5 million ($33 million), a threat to free speech.

Ahead of Australia's law requiring social media platforms to block people under 16 taking effect on Wednesday, a U.S. congressional committee said it wants Inman Grant to testify, describing her as a foreign official challenging the First Amendment.

"I hear from the parents and the activists and everyday people in America, 'we wish we had an e-safety commissioner like you in America, we wish we had a government that was going to put tween and teen safety before technology profits," Inman Grant said in an interview at her office in Sydney.
"There's more that unites us than divides us," added Inman Grant, who is American-born and worked in policy roles at Microsoft and Twitter before becoming Australia's first internet regulator in 2017.

Already governments from Europe to Asia have said they plan similar steps to Australia amid rising concern about social media's links to bullying, body image problems and radicalisation, all fuelled by what Inman Grant called a "system to keep stickiness through outragement".
But the U.S. has bristled at attempted restrictions, with attempts by some states to impose an age minimum stalled by legal challenges. U.S. federal legislation which contains safety requirements for minors but no age minimum is yet to become law after three years.

That did not mean the U.S. would never follow Australia's lead regarding online safety, said Inman Grant, adding that she had worked in the past year with the Department of Homeland Security to help build tools to stop the spread of child sexual abuse material.
The Take It Down Act, a U.S. law banning artificial intelligence-generated deepfakes, which was signed into law by President Donald Trump in May, "very much emulates what we've been doing here for eight years", Inman Grant said.

Regardless, she said, countries were entitled to impose safety standards on imported goods, from cars to medicine, and it was "technological exceptionalism" for platforms to say the same shouldn't apply to them.
"There is no other consumer-facing industry in the world where we don't expect them to make sure that there are safety standards," she said.
"This is Australia calling time on social media and the deceptive and harmful design features tethering our children to their platforms."
All 10 platforms covered by the ban - including Meta's (META.O)
, opens new tab Instagram, TikTok, Snap's (SNAP.N), opens new tab Snapchat and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O)
, opens new tab YouTube - have said they will comply, but Inman Grant acknowledged the challenge enforcing the law if the platforms ultimately violate it.
That may not matter.
"In my experience...sometimes it isn't the regulation itself that is the impetus for doing the right thing," she said.
"It's often the reputational damage."