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Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban (www.reuters.com)
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After reading about this on hacker news, I get why they do it. Its to make people upload identification documents, to get them prepped to authenticate for using the internet. Now the world makes sense again. I was wondering why they would do something positive. But now I get it.

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[–] mjr -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In other words, whatever information you collect to do the age verification, unless you already have it, with the user's consent, for some other purpose, you must not store their information.

A lovely fairy story, based on ignoring all past and current law-breaking by the tech bro companies!

But again, you mentioned the US government. What does that have to do with this? This is a law passed in Australia, but the Australian government. An entirely different country, and one with an actually functioning government and legislature.

  1. Most of the media companies are subject to US government control. If US says to track someone but Aus law says not to, who do you think they'll obey?
  2. Australia doesn't have an actually functioning legislature at the moment, with Labor getting over half the lower house seats from about a third of the votes, but I doubt that's changed this bad law much. If anything, more L+N input would probably have been worse and I don't know the other party views on it.
[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

with Labor getting over half the lower house seats from about a third of the votes

Yikes. This is some really dangerous misinformation. Labor received 55% of the votes. Because we use an actual democratic system, not the FPTP farce that America and the UK have. You cannot compare first preferences in IRV to votes in FPTP.

[–] mjr 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

No, you have IRV, not any proportional system. IRV is better than most-takes-all but it's still a malfunction. Labor ended up with 55% after voters for smaller parties were denied their first choice entirely.

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago

As far as laws regarding digital rights / freedoms go, we have no chance in Australia anyway as the major parties are all against them.

In fact the coalition has an even worse track record than labor.