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Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery (theconversation.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

The legislation does note that some services are “excluded”, but does not name specific platforms. For example, while services providing “online social interaction” would be included in the ban, this would not include “online business interaction”.

Looking forward to watching Facebook claim it's all a business interaction because they're selling the user data or something. Also surely this includes any and all online forums.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

@spiffmeister @Joker I'm interested in how they'll handle iMessage. And if they allow iMessage, why not Signal? And so on. Gonna be some interesting lines have to be drawn.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

I they're going to need Mr. Squiggle to make those lines look like something coherent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

It then law is written loosely enough they may just try to apply it however is politically convenient at the time. Don't like people using signal? Guess signal is social media lmao.

That's not to say the original intent is to harass software they don't like, but a law written ambiguously can be used for other things if desired.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

@spiffmeister Sounds like I'll be using BHPMail, MinResX and Riosky

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Looking forward to watching Facebook claim it’s all a business interaction because they’re selling the user data or something.

Well there's Marketplace which is quite popular, so maybe they can contort themselves to make that argument.