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Aka another scheme to tie faces to anonymous identities.
this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2024
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just like religion; you gotta indoctrinate them while they're young & impressionable so that they will more easily accept your biases as reality; otherwise they'll be corrupted by information from unapproved sources like tiktok
you gotta indoctrinate them while they're young & impressionable so that they will more easily accept your biases as reality;
Lol and social media companies are just such complete white knights too and would never engage in such tactics.
They're no more nor less white knight than facebook; but facebook is on the approved list because it complied willingly where tiktok can't.
Well tiktok is one of the worse sources to obtain information from in my opinion because you pretty much guaranteed to only get information and opinions from people who align with your ideologies.
The same goes for all general use social media platform and singling tiktok out on these grounds can only be intentional.
Yeah your right.
What will this mean for Lemmy instances? XMPP servers? Email servers?
What if a 15 year old runs their own personal Mastodon server? LoL this is gonna be yet another entertaining Australian government shitshow.
My guess is that small targets like the fediverse will likely escape scrutiny because it would be a lot of trouble for a tiny handful of users.
If large numbers of kids started moving here once all the big platforms are blocked, and the pearl clutchers get wind of it, then the govt might move slowly towards trying to do something.
It would be great if heaps more people started using the fediverse but it would terrible if you had to use biometrics to create an account with a federated cite.
I can't believe how fucked this is. Social media isn't always the healthiest thing, but banning it? I was hardly allowed to leave my house as a kid, i have no idea what i would've done if i couldn't talk to my peers online.
No matter which model is adopted, the prime minister has said privacy protections will be introduced to cover any data people end up providing.
Sure. Now stop thinking of ridiculous legal aspects and fight for your privacy.
Maybe kids will start learning how to use a desktop properly... The Linux variety 🐸
WTF is AU government gonna about that haha
After hearing about this proposal for three months now, I still believe it's fucked up, especially the fact they don't even know what method they'll use, whether it's digital IDs (which will take likely at least a decade to become mainstream), facial scanning (authoritarian as fuck), or some other shitty proposal.
There's also the fact as a child I wasn't able to go out very much, so social media was useful to me, especially to give me time with friends digitally, and as a time burner, which can be detrimental for a child in a similar place to have it all banned.
In all ways this happens, this will either be extremely authoritarian or would not be necessary as all people set their birth dates to their exact one every time without any variation, like magic, as if that shit would ever happen.
If they want to employ bank-style KYC, then no. >!Fediverse is better.!<
The same way porn and alcohol is banned for those under 18? Mkay mate, I doubt anything will come out of this.
the australian government is really out of control
The two major parties here are always trying to out do each other when it comes to taking away digital rights.
Circa 2009 we had Labor trying to bring in a nationwide filter. That failed however since then we have had a ton of shit legislation with bi partisan support dropped on us.
Anybody know if messengers fall within this definition?
plans to try to
Welp. I think I’ll stick to writing to the local paper if I need to sign in blood to have a public opinion.
I think there needs to be some legislation done in terms of limiting commercial social media platforms although I'm not sure how someone would go about this. Would they ban social media cites that take peoples data? maybe they should ban cites that display ads? What about making all social media cites to support an open protocol like activity pub or similar so your not locked into using there scummy closed source apps.
Laughs in fedi and nostr
Good, I think you should pass an intelligence test to go online
This has nothing to do with the subject. Unfortunately for all of us, you didn't have to pass any test