How will Australia's ban on youth access to social media affect instances hosted in Australia? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 months ago by n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Do they have any rule that says you need a minimum number of users on a site to fall under the law?

If servers of someinstance.co.au fine if they move to hosting in Finland?

It just feels like a nightmare.

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[-] Skavau@piefed.social 8 points 2 months ago

March? Over 18?

Reddthat presumably was reacting to the Online Safety ACT UK there.

[-] e0qdk@reddthat.com 3 points 2 months ago

We discussed it in the community posts back in Dec 2024 when the law passed -- February is when the sign up change happened and March was when the announcement went up. The UK's bullshit may be what prompted the announcement happening then though.

[-] Skavau@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah, but what I mean is that wasn't a reaction to Australia here. Since your threshold here is 18, not 16.

[-] e0qdk@reddthat.com 4 points 2 months ago

reddthat is an instance hosted in Australia; so the answer to "how will the ban affect it" is "we already have an age limit in place". That's my point.