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Children social media bans are just an excuse to deanonymize the internet so politicians can send the police after their critics. https://anzsog.edu.au/researc
by throwaway48476 11mo ago
Children 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/research/beyond-a-joke-friendlyjordies-and-the-fixated-persons-investigations-unit/ https://anzsog.edu.au/research-insights-and-resources/resear...
- energy123 11mo agoThe ban is supported by a large majority of Australia according to polling, so this is democracy working as intended.
- squigz 11mo agoPossibly because they've been misled into thinking it will be effective.
- Kenji 11mo ago[dead]
- XorNot 11mo agoThe OP isn't necessarily wrong though: the effect of the law is basically not well understood, hence the popularity. It's a case of people not understanding what age verification means (you are collecting everyone's ID to do it) and/or nor caring because "they don't use that Internet". There's going to be a lot whinging once a bunch of boomers and boomer-millennials see an age check prompt on Facebook.
- rijoja 11mo agoThank you.