Mastodawn

E-safety commissioner in Australia is upset their isn’t a system to snitch on teens who are on social media. Wanting children to be safe is a reasonable thing but it isn’t healthy or normal behaviour to want a society where people report each other for being on social media. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4181pkxl2o

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Kat S

@JamesBaker Gee, I wonder where they might be trying to steer the culture through encouraging people to denounce each other to the authorities.

Yep, looks absolutely focused on the wellbeing of kids from here.

I read that as a complaint that the platforms are not providing an easy route for users to report suspected under age accounts to the platform itself, rather than reporting it to an AUS authority? A bit like reporting unacceptable content or other breaches.

Not sure if that makes it any better...

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James Baker 1d ago

@2trax @KatS Yes that’s how I read it. Encouraging a culture of reporting on your neighbour or another person simply for being on social media seems depoly authoritarian. Like something out of Eastern Germany during the Cold War.