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Europe looks to Australia's social media ban for kids (www.dw.com)
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[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 7 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

He added that, anecdotally, "many young people aged 13-15 seem to have circumvented the ban, while others seem to have been banned from some platforms and not others." This is an observation backed by media reports and other experts. "On a technical level, the limitations and imprecise nature of trying to verify age using selfies and other tools was also pretty much as inaccurate as most people expected in advance," Leaver said.

The flurry of European countries, and others around the world such as India and Malaysia, keen to follow Australia's lead is a surprise to Susan Sawyer, from Australia's largest child health research center, the Murdoch Children's Research Institute.

"I had expected there would be much more of a watchful expectancy of the results of the Australian ban before governments would be jumping in quite as quickly," she told DW. "We don't know what the effects of the ban are going to be and we need to evaluate this carefully. Governments need to be careful to avoid thinking that social media bans are a silver bullet to this problem."

[-] ISOmorph@feddit.org 7 points 21 hours ago

"I had expected there would be much more of a watchful expectancy of the results of the Australian ban before governments would be jumping in quite as quickly," she told DW. "We don't know what the effects of the ban are going to be and we need to evaluate this carefully. Governments need to be careful to avoid thinking that social media bans are a silver bullet to this problem."

Almost as if there are ulterior motives...

[-] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 14 hours ago

Every government is doing it all at once. Chat control, age checks, masterbaitorbases.

All to submit us to new tech, palantir and their ilk, to feed all of our information to get social scores to determine winners and losers, secretly in a way we cannot know or challenge, by the antichrist that wants to spray critics and opponents with fentanyl by drone by his own words, a technofascist that is not trying to hide it and already has all the information federal agencies had exported to it through doge, on top of their data banks.

They want to id every account, every ip, to faces, biometrics, and id, and record everything with their threat assessments, and promulgate their half baked assumptions from business to government. Make no mistake, our governments are trying to surrender us to tech with these laws, protecting kids is just the trojan horse. Assurances of not storing the information are laughable, tech will keep it, the US will get it, your own country will get it. Your politicians will get an option to slip the names of people they choose into the bad score list too, that's always one of the under the table selling points on these things.

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