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Those are very valid but separate concerns. You can make social media illegal for under 16s without requiring online age validation. After all, a form of this
by xnorswap 2y ago
Those are very valid but separate concerns.
You can make social media illegal for under 16s without requiring online age validation.
After all, a form of this already exists with the US COPPA [1] law, and the presence of that law hasn't forced age validation on everyone.
If the US can make it de-facto illegal for companies to let under 13s use social media, and has been the case for over 20 years, then it shouldn't be a sudden privacy-ending problem for Australia to make it illegal for under 16s to use social media.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Protection_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Pr...
- ryandrake 2y agoKids get around COPPA all the time. Everyone in my kid's middle school knows that you have to simply lie about your age when you sign up for an Internet service, because most of them won't let you in if you are stupid enough to say you are under 13, and the services that let you in are nerfed to the point of uselessness. Furthermore, now I have to navigate the morality of encouraging my own kid to lie, just so she can use an online service that I approve of as a parent. Terrible law.