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what it's like to be an Australian who uses newpipe.... (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 months ago by ticoombs@reddthat.com to c/community@reddthat.com
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I've made my position pretty clear how this was the wrong move by our government...

Services that eSafety considers will be age-restricted social media platforms

Facebook
Instagram
Kick
Reddit
Snapchat
Threads
TikTok
Twitch
X (formerly Twitter)
YouTube

Services that eSafety considers will not be age-restricted social media platforms

Discord
GitHub
Google Classroom
LEGO Play
Messenger
Pinterest
Roblox
Steam and Steam Chat
WhatsApp
YouTube Kids
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[-] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 months ago

Roblox is not age-restricted?

[-] ticoombs@reddthat.com 7 points 3 months ago

Mmm. They apparently appeased our government by enabling "kid" mode, where it disables chat (or something like that).

[-] e0qdk@reddthat.com 5 points 3 months ago

Is 4chan still part of the non age-restricted category? ๐Ÿ™ƒ๏ธ

[-] ticoombs@reddthat.com 3 points 3 months ago

Yep.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

It would be good to get a summary of you perspective on why it's wrong.

[-] ticoombs@reddthat.com 8 points 3 months ago

Identity verification in its current form(s) is completely outsourced to basically any company that says they are compliant and would do verification.

Forcing young kids and then teenagers to use facial recognition systems as part of everyday life also rubs me the wrong way. Especially when any company in any jurisdiction could be saving them.

https://cybernews.com/security/facepass-data-leak-brazil-passport-selfie
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/hack-age-verification-company-shows-privacy-danger-social-media-laws
And I spent all of 2 minutes looking for those.

At the end of the day they unfortunately did the same thing that upper management will do. Find a technical solution, to an human problem. Not everything needs to be solved with technology.

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

You can use Freetube with Tor, and it might help with that.

[-] gustofwind@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Discord is the primary platform for right wing terrorism and pedophilia indoctrination

[-] ticoombs@reddthat.com 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Which is interesting, because I would assume Discord regularly works with law enforcement. Especially when half of the articles I read on hackers show "blahblah on discord" etc.

[-] gustofwind@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Regularly working with law enforcement usually just means they respond to court orders and basically all companies do that.

Some of the most prolific right wing terrorism groups start and rely on discord because the platform has tools for granular social and group manipulation.

They almost always start in gaming communities too

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