Does this mean a rise in single player and couch-coop games? 🤩

are you under 16

no

ok cool here's a youtube short when an AI voice tells you an AI-written story over vaguely related stock footage

The planet is fucking melting and elected leaders are writing laws on herding cats

I've been using the internet for longer than I've been an adult.

I still sometimes add +10 years to date of birth fields out of habit.

Might as well have issued a mandate to nom a spoonful of sand daily.

Of course one could also make the effort and instead force these platforms to provide actually useful parental supervision,guidance and parental information. But a blanked bann of course is far easier and much more catchy.

So the 14 year old that moved overseas/away can no longer legally play a game free for 6year and above in a private lobby. Neither can a 12 year old play with his divorced dad living out of state,even when they play a coop without any interaction with third parties.

All educational resources on YouTube? No longer available. Renowned youth programs from outside Australia? No longer available.

Even parents who let their kids use responsible to make sure they slowly adapt to social media are now criminalised. Getting your 13 year old a Facebook accounts have full control of so it can be member in two closed groups (local clubs) and chat with relatives? Nope,not possible.

Technically even using WhatsApp or Matrix can fall under this ban,btw.

Because it's wording is so bad.

Back to LAN parties? Because those were pretty fun to be honest...

This will never work. YouTube is a part of education now.

watch this space, australia is the testing ground for new services overseas. If this rolls out effectively in Australia, you can expect it in your own country soon.

This kills the crab.

To the "can't enforce this because it can be circumvented" argument - this is missing the point of most laws. The intention is to apply to the majority, not to be foolproof. Getting most to stop a harmful behavior already gets us most of the benefits. We can never stop everyone.

Nanny State. Been saying it.

How?