Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery
The ban won’t take effect for at least 12 months. But key details about it are still missing – including how social media platforms will actually verify users’ age.
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The legislation does note that some services are “excluded”, but does not name specific platforms. For example, while services providing “online social interaction” would be included in the ban, this would not include “online business interaction”.
Looking forward to watching Facebook claim it's all a business interaction because they're selling the user data or something. Also surely this includes any and all online forums.
@spiffmeister @Joker I'm interested in how they'll handle iMessage. And if they allow iMessage, why not Signal? And so on. Gonna be some interesting lines have to be drawn.
I they're going to need Mr. Squiggle to make those lines look like something coherent.
It then law is written loosely enough they may just try to apply it however is politically convenient at the time. Don't like people using signal? Guess signal is social media lmao.
That's not to say the original intent is to harass software they don't like, but a law written ambiguously can be used for other things if desired.
@spiffmeister Sounds like I'll be using BHPMail, MinResX and Riosky
Looking forward to watching Facebook claim it’s all a business interaction because they’re selling the user data or something.
Well there's Marketplace which is quite popular, so maybe they can contort themselves to make that argument.