8Dec 18

I'm just catching up on the details of Australia's social media account ban for under 16s.

https://youtu.be/V7CMHW1bl7U

As always, thanks to Twomey for the help clarifying my thoughts.

It strikes me that if we had two relatively mundane technical things the constitutional argument about effectiveness would be weakened to a relative argument rather than a categorical argument.

* Interoperability suitable for standardised client-side parental controls
* Accountless anonymous speech, enabled by an excellent suite of tools for moderators

I'm not for the ban, but I imagine we should more or less have supported patterns for these things anyway on the #fediverse, even if it's just as a point of difference, and even if they're not things that we would generally want to construct community around as a priority. If you know more about it than me just imagining things, descriptions of prior art and corrections welcome.

#OnlineSafetyAct #socialmediaban #u16ban

Will Reddit's challenge to Australia's "social media ban" succeed?

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bounding_starDec 18
Everyone should watch & share this great, easy to follow, but comprehensive breakdown of the #socMedBan covering what all the real impacts are and how we can shift the conversation nationally if we ever wanna have a society with healthy digital spaces https://youtu.be/CCXnZIjSj1Q
#u16ban #Australia #digitalRights #privacy #censorship
I truly hope I'm just being paranoid about this

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Nate CochraneDec 12
Australia’s #alBANese has a lot to answer for. That a conservative US Republican lawmaker and an allegedly Socialist Labor Australian PM would sing from the same sheet on banning kids effectively from the internet speaks volumes. #auspol #AgeVerification #SocialMediaBan #SocialMedia #U16ban

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z6rujpf4u56jfie7aqic2nfg/post/3m7t7lkajp22d
skribe 🇺🇦 Dec 10

How much time will it be before the media start calling the U16 ban an unmitigated failure?

#U16Ban #AusPol #AusPoll

They already are
7.7%
By end of tomorrow
19.2%
End of the week
11.5%
End of the month
23.1%
Never
38.5%
Poll ended at .