Social media ban under 16 in Australia

[possessor]

yeah, if somehow they target EVERY single website where you communicate, it'd basically be cutting off all human communication

[chuft]

The details are still being hashed out. The legislation states that "legislative rules" will have a lot of the implementing details. There is a draft of the rules floating around but I don't see a link to it.

However there are documents responding to the draft, giving advice from
the eSafety Commissioner (that woman with the American accent, Julie Inman Grant )
to the Minister of Communication (Anika Wells )


who apparently is in charge of them.

https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/de...e-safety-rules

It sounds like Wells intends to exempt YouTube for some reason but the advice given by Grant is that she should not.

Without seeing the draft of the rules, or better yet the final rules, it is impossible to tell exactly which services will be restricted.

Interestingly the legislation does not, unlike similar US legislation, just target services using algorithms. It is much broader. It could even affect this site.

(1) For the purposes of this Act, age‑restricted social media platform means:

(a) an electronic service that satisfies the following conditions:

(i) the sole purpose, or a significant purpose, of the service is to enable online social interaction between 2 or more end‑users;

(ii) the service allows end‑users to link to, or interact with, some or all of the other end‑users;

(iii) the service allows end‑users to post material on the service;

(iv) such other conditions (if any) as are set out in the legislative rules; or

(b) an electronic service specified in the legislative rules

So an awful lot depends on what the Minister puts in the legislative rules. You can't tell from just the legislation itself.

[possessor]

It sounds like Wells intends to exempt YouTube for some reason but the advice given by Grant is that she should not.

lolwut

probably because you can find educational stuff on youtube.. but then you can find other stuff that's not so educational

[Play_z]

lolwut

probably because you can find educational stuff on youtube.. but then you can find other stuff that's not so educational

To get pass this law, you can always use your parents or an older family member face to decide if you’re older enough to use social media. They will never know the difference >:)

[ziggyzweets]

this has just happened recently in the uk but its affecting under 18s

[possessor]

this has just happened recently in the uk but its affecting under 18s

is there a reason why

[Play_z]

Social media ban is coming to all under 16 in Australia tomorrow, I can’t really say something about it because I’ll probably won’t be affected.

btw only the popular social media sites are banned including LinkedIn and Twitch as well, but smaller sites like LT forums, Pinterest and Devianart (I think) are still useable when the ban is in place

[possessor]

So I can still use Internet forums and club penguin. Good

But I've changed my Google account to 17 and using a Japanese VPN. It's not worth getting the weird Uber ads but oh well

[Play_z]

So I can still use Internet forums and club penguin. Good

But I've changed my Google account to 17 and using a Japanese VPN. It's not worth getting the weird Uber ads but oh well

Well daaa, they only mention the popular ones not random chatting sites except Omegle. Wait your google account wasn’t 10 years older than you at first (age section wise). I always put it 10 years older than me on every platform. Plus, children snitches are reporting to the news stations about how they are bypassing the ban with vpns, Halloween mask and family photos. Literally this 12 year old girl snitching to 7news about, showing a Beyoncé photo and by pass one of the social media face filters with it (the video was on instagram few days ago)

[possessor]

slightly OT but i did the roblox age thing and it thought i was 18-20 LOL

[Play_z]

slightly OT but i did the roblox age thing and it thought i was 18-20 LOL

Congrats, your aging fast jk. I haven’t done mine yet, I’m too lazy and tired. What I heard from other people around your age on YT/ Roblox YouTubers comments or twitter or whatever. They get called around 8 and under so you got lucky

[Play_z]

Apparently, the ban failed 💀💀💀 Well that’s what I heard from other people so far

[possessor]

brah my vpn isnt even on and i havent even had to verify anything ts failed so hard LMAAAAOOOO

[Play_z]

I can’t believe that they thought that this would work. Jokes on them!!! I can’t wait for the guy to be crying on tv because it failed so hard. And a couple of podcast youtubers not even youtubers more like grown influencers to be whining about Aussie kids are still on the internet 💀😭

[possessor]

I cant believe i thought this would work even though i clearly found loopholes.. and Albanese should learn from this absolute flop haha