This doesn’t go far enough. Kids under 18 shouldn’t be allowed to use smartphones period.
Streaming platform Twitch added to Australia's teen social media ban
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#22Are they going to do age verification? And how? The only way I can think of would effectively require identity verification as well.
They will most likely utilise some sort of system where a photo or short video are uploaded and an AI will make a determination of age. It’s not going to be accurate but will probably be compliant enough.
Then they will say it's broken and demand digital ID to 'fix' it.
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#23This is imo a much needed move due to how absurdly socially manipulative twitch and other social oriented platforms have become.
A lot of the top dog streamers especially employ cult like social manipulation to ensure that they stay relevant and continue to earn a boat load from exploiting their fans, obviously it didn't used to be this bad and there are still streamers not doing this but it's a general trend downwards towards enabling and normalizing antisocial behavior.
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Problem is, that it sets a precedent, and next they will come for other websites whose ban will strike you as "bad". Edit: I can definitely see them banning anything related to Linux and resources related to OSes because of how processes can be handled, e.g. "kill parent", "kill child", and so on. The term "kill" already has to be censored out on many websites. Of course context matters, but people really have diffic…
You can use this train of thought to argue against laws in general, it doesn't sound like a very strong argument
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While your slippery slope argument can be applied to literally anything that children are restricted from, it consistently fails to materialize. Perhaps it's predictive power is not as expansive as you think.
They won't ban Linux for containing "kill" but because it teaches kids to "hack" :)
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#26This doesn’t strike me as “bad”. Seeing the content on Twitch and how parasocial it is, it doesn’t seem healthy for kids under 18 tbh. Like Facebook was the craze when I was exiting highschool, and then it was instagram/snapchat/twitter through college. “Quitting” social media was one of the healthiest adult choices I ever made—comparison is the thief of joy, blah blah blah.
It’s actually a good example nations should follow. It will still be exploited and sought after which also is a good thing in its own. And that’d be OK. While the general uninformed public, which is oblivious to its dangers, will be spared.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
While your slippery slope argument can be applied to literally anything that children are restricted from, it consistently fails to materialize. Perhaps it's predictive power is not as expansive as you think.
They won't ban Linux for containing "kill" but because it teaches kids to "hack" :)
Talk to your kids about the danger of using 'linux' today!
https://www.zdnet.com/article/uk-police-distance-themselves-...
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#28Children social media bans are just an excuse to deanonymize the internet so politicians can send the police after their critics. https://anzsog.edu.au/research-insights-and-resources/resear...
The ban is supported by a large majority of Australia according to polling, so this is democracy working as intended.
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#29Children social media bans are just an excuse to deanonymize the internet so politicians can send the police after their critics. https://anzsog.edu.au/research-insights-and-resources/resear...
The ban is supported by a large majority of Australia according to polling, so this is democracy working as intended.
Possibly because they've been misled into thinking it will be effective.
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#30What does this ban actually mean? As I understand it, it bans kids from creating an account. They can still doom scroll or waste their life watching reels without a login, don't they? This may push social media back to making their content accessible without an account :)
At least for Twitch that means they can't give money to streamers making a small country's GDP a month.