Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
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#2I’m not against teens communicating with each other online, but I’m very much against the algorithm-driven dopamine addiction factories that are social media today.
Imagine a whole generation of teens with attention spans longer than 15 seconds…they might actually realize their incredible potential!
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#3It will be interesting to see how this pans out.
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#4Australia compliance etc etc...
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But then also global measures?
> Teen account holders under 18 everywhere will get a version of Reddit with more protective safety features built in, including stricter chat settings, no ads personalization or sensitive ads, and no access to NSFW or mature content.
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#5Awesome. I hope they do the same in Europe. Children should not be addicted to TikTok.
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#6Besides this being ineffective for the motivated, it might have a subtle antitrust effect.
As kids find alternative platforms, perhaps they will be vendor locked to them instead of the Meta empire.
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#7Awesome. I hope they do the same in Europe. Children should not be addicted to TikTok.
Forget the children, no one should be subjected to the brainrot that is TikTok. Or any form of vertical short videos for that matter.
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#8Quite a decisive move by the Australian government. I don't know if it's a move in the right direction or not but the research clearly shows that around the time social media became mainstream, teens' and preteens' mental health took a nosedive (Especially girls).
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#9How does a country effectively enforce this? Below is how they propose doing this. If you don't have any form of verification of your actual age, it's seems like they are just going on what the user says ( self reports). How can a company be found liable if a used lies about their age?
>the days leading to the ban, some teenagers said that they were prompted to verify their ages using a facial analysis feature, but that it gave inaccurate estimates. The law also states that companies cannot ask users to provide government-issued identification as the only way to prove their age because of privacy concerns.
Re: Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
#10How does a country effectively enforce this? Below is how they propose doing this. If you don't have any form of verification of your actual age, it's seems like they are just going on what the user says ( self reports). How can a company be found liable if a used lies about their age? >the days leading to the ban, some teenagers said that they were prompted to verify their ages using a facial analysis feature, but t…
> How can a company be found liable if a used lies about their age?
You make them bleed money when you find they are in violation. They either figure it out or they go under as a company. There isn't a natural law saying companies have a right to exist.