Australische Kinder sollen ab dem nächsten Jahr aus den sozialen Medien verbannt werden, nachdem das Parlament über weltweit erste Gesetze abgestimmt hat
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-28/social-media-age-ban-passes-parliament/104647138?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other
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>Children and teenagers will be banned from using social media from the end of next year after the government’s world-first legislation passed the parliament with bipartisan support.
>That means anyone under the age of 16 will be blocked from using platforms including TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook, a move the government and the Coalition argue is necessary to protect their mental health and wellbeing.
I honestly wish to see the is applied throughout the globe
I’m sure the kids won’t take long to work around whatever they put in place
It’s so fucking stupid. It’s unenforceable. Will drive kids onto fragmented platforms where monitoring and moderation is even more difficult and platforms that already thumb their noses at laws.
Bypassing it will be trivial and the method of implementation is undefined.
Fuck what a stupid policy. It was rammed through with 24 hours of consultation, and even then they receiver 15,000 submissions. Which they carefully reviewed, thought about, weighed carefully, and then decided their policy needed no modifications in 3 hours.
Ahhhhh Australia… Lived there for a few years and honestly could not believe how compliant and obedient they are as a people.. In Scotland, we really don’t do “authority” well.
You tell us we can’t do something, the first response is “f you” and the second is to ask “says who? You?”. If a law makes sense, we follow it – if not, we tend to just ignore it.
It will be interesting to see how this pans out. I know it would not work here, but still.. Good to see a natural experiment play out.
It’s still not clear how this will be enforced but the fear is it will lead to the implementation of a national ID. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp have been the ones lobbying for this ban and both major parties backed it. Any time they all get on the same page it’s usually to push through some draconian nonsense under the guise of safety or “protecting the kids”.
Australia has a shocking record when it comes to civil liberties. Customs can search anyone’s phone at anytime without a warrant when they come into the country. Police in Sydney routinely harass innocent people with drug detection dogs at pubs and train stations. People stopped by the dogs at music festivals are regularly subjected to naked strip searches. Following a mass stabbing last year, police across the country have the power to randomly wand people with metal detectors. We became the first nation in the world last year to ban vapes. Australia is becoming more Authoritarian by the day. It’s sad to see.
I would actually like to see how this plays out, there is massive pressure on parents at the moment to provide kids with phones from the age of 8 upward. On top of that all of them are on Snap or Insta and monitoring the constant engagement, bullying and constant communication is super difficult. Getting kids to snap-out of watching tik tok for hours on end and do something productive is challenging and on top of that they are exposed to shit tonnes of conspiracy nutters and loads of other bad actors.
When will people see through shit like this as the government using kids as an excuse to spy on you and take more power over your lives while you thank them?
This is a good first step, but it needs to be expanded to all ages. The amount of damage social media has done to society is immeasurable.
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