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Landmark legislation sees the Australian government committed to the novel step of child protection by banning social media for under sixteens.

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[–] HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Fair dinkem mate. How are they gonna regulate this?

[–] ABCDE@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] ogmios@sh.itjust.works 6 points 19 hours ago

I'm just waiting until they remember why borders are a thing that exists.

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 3 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

Are they still allowed on Lemmy?

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

this isn't for the safety of kids; it's to eliminate the ability for queer kids to find a community.

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[–] MudMan@fedia.io 1 points 19 hours ago

Yeah, I hear they're not allowed to watch porn until 18 either and that works flawlessly.

Beyond questions of implementation this to me sounds like maybe we're replacing Instagram with Fortnite, but it sure will be interesting to see how it plays out. I guess trying something is better than trying nothing.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world -2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I am so, so glad to see that at least one country in the world is willing to tackle this problem.

Also a little depressed that every comment thread about this law boils down to: "It's hard. Might as well not do it at all," especially from people who (rightly) think we need to ban guns every time a school gets shot up here in the US, which would be monumentally difficult socially but 100% needs to happen.

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