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Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery
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You can't see it, but I have my dubious face on.
It'll be interesting to see the definition of "social media". All I've seen so far is a list of sites/services that will be banned/exempt.
Lemmy doesn't seem to fit into such a law. Lock down a pile of sites running Lemmy, another instance pops up isn't covered by the ban. "Ban Lemmy software, then" I hear you say. Thing is: Lemmy is open source. Someone can fork it, release a new federating service software called TotesNotLemmyLol on their site and get around the ban.
I genuinely can't tell how the government will implement this.
I say this as a dad to a teenager who will be affected by this law, and no - I wouldn't want him unsupervised on Lemmy. He'd be safe enough in Local (you guys are lovely), but it's a dark world out there.
I reckon this instance will be considered social media, I don't really see how it wouldn't be. I imagine even if you were to move this instance to a server outside of Australia, you both being Australians means you'll still have to manage ID verification crap
I'm not so stoic, I think this probably will end up affecting all of us here
@Baku @Nath Oh. So even if I set some things up in Singapore (closest with decent latency I think) then I, being resident here, can still be punished for not requiring age verification on it? That seems helluva over-reach.
Mind you, whole concept is an over-reach.
One possibility is the Brazilian way to do law enforcement: blocking the domain and server IP addresses through ISPs.
@dsilverz
Other Australian Government advice is to use a VPN.
Even a free VPN via Proton gives me 35/18 Mbps via Tokyo.
So, unless they get ISPs to block access to VPNs, blocking an IP address won't work.
(I really hope I haven't given Albo any ideas here...)
@quokka1
Here in Brazil, a Supreme Court minister has ruled on several occasions to block certain websites and services, the most recent being X/Twitter. Along with his decision to block these websites, he also imposed fines on those caught using VPNs to bypass ISP blocking. Although VPN traffic is encrypted and impossible for governments to monitor, somehow this worked because several people were fined. It is likely that Supreme Court agents monitored these networks in order to detect possible Brazilians using them during such blockages. An Australian should expect their government to proceed in a similar fashion.
(Just for clarification, I'm not going into the merits of this, just stating that this is technically possible and that there is a precedent in the government of a country, in aforementioned case, Brazil. Whether this is good or bad will depend on many factors)