Blocking Discord, Twitch, Steam and Roblox will get the teens really fucking riled up
“There may be those who are [covered by the ban] and claim to not be, and may force a legal fight.”
I guess that’s where Github and Steam will fight
We really did ban social media so kids are more likely to get their news from corporate sources huh?
A ban just means they can’t get an account on a social media platform. They can still browse and read the ones that allow public read access - eg Reddit, Twitch, YouTube, etc… Eg Majority of the stuff listed here.
I’m not upset they can’t get a Facebook account, it’s propaganda central.
I don’t think this is a secret plan to push kids mainstream media.
So we’re just trying to stop kids from posting online? What even is the point then
Maybe research why social media is bad for kids.
“Even dating apps” is a wild piece of phrasing
Yes, even dating apps, famously known for only allowing 18+ year olds
So much this, yes. Keeping the little kids off the dating apps completely should be completely fine by every adult.
Ah yes, GitHub, the social media website.
We should ban stack overflow tho.
Yes the well known social media platform GitHub
I’ve had this argument numerous times on here and I do not care to have it again, but I’m just going to say this. If you define lemmy and Reddit as social media, then you are defining almost the entire internet to be social media and this is the outcome. Governments will regulate that term, to include everything, and restrict almost all of your online activity in the process. That includes websites like GitHub, Amazon, and Wikipedia. It includes StackOverflow and the Git mailing list. It includes Google and PornHub and Netflix and Weather.com.
This is the inevitable outcome of defining social media to include forums…places of discussion. To define social media as sharing things. Stop defining lemmy and Reddit as social media and maybe things will get better. But at this point it will be hard.
Yes, and the more they try to regulate, more people will move to dark net alternatives.
Good.
Kids under 13 aren’t allowed on any of those platforms already.
Young teens shouldn’t be in voice chats or text chats with adults they don’t know on the Internet. If they wanna play online with remote family or close friends then there are many alternatives for video or voice comms with people you directly have in your contacts, without having to use a social media platform like Discord that expose you to wider risk.
All of these platforms only have their minimum age set at 13 due to regulation by the COPPA act in the US, and I remember the resistance and naysayers back when that was being created. However it’s been a net good, as experts said it would be - and forced the massive tech companies to architect for child accounts and parental approval and implement stricter content filtering and segregation for young teens, or simply block any kids under 13 from making accounts if they decided their platform had too much adult content and would be hard to segregate - great.
Since then, many different studies and relevant experts have found corporate social media is very bad for most people, way worse than initially believed - and incredibly bad for kids. So, time to raise the age bar again. The law proposed is not proscriptive or draconian - it doesn’t mandate a particular technology to be used, it just says the providers must show they have “reasonable steps in place”, similar to COPPA before it.
Great to have this investigative reporting into a government’s efforts towards the subversion of free speech and censorship from …Disney/ABC.
It doesn’t matter they put Kimmel back on; they bent the knee and kissed the ring and showed, to no one’s surprise, that corporations care only about profits and access to power to increase profits.
Edit: delighted to learn there are places where ABC isn’t owned by fascists.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s charter details its function as a public broadcaster with a politically nationalist mission:
Broadcasting programs that contribute to a sense of national identity and inform and entertain, and reflect the cultural diversity of, the Australian community (Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983, 6).
Australian Broadcasting Company
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This comment made me laugh, considering that I read when the Australian Broadcasting Company was talking about people sending them emails complaining about the abc/Disney situation.
