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Sep 10th, 2024 at 10:38am
 
Looks like Albo is going ahead to legislate age limits for access to social media. Somewhere between 14 to 16 years of age.

This may be a good intentioned idea but I reckon it is unenforceable.
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Reply #1 - Sep 10th, 2024 at 12:33pm
 
This just about says it all.

https://x.com/speakcleary/status/1833281095972045289

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Working class Australians- “we can’t afford decent food or housing for our kids and they’re falling behind”

Albanese - “I hear your pain, so my government will ban that child from social media”


And yes - it will be unenforceable.
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Reply #2 - Sep 10th, 2024 at 12:50pm
 
Social media ban ‘unlikely to keep our children safer’, says expert


More experts are coming out to warn against age verification on social media and gaming apps as a cure to some of the social destruction wrought by bullying and harassment on the apps.

Professor Amanda Third has quite the academic resume: a professorial research fellow in the Institute for Culture & Society; co-director of the Young and Resilient Research Centre at Western Sydney University; and a faculty associate in the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University (2020-2023).

Third says while banning social media for young adolescents “is very seductive, especially for parents”, it is not the answer.

Parents really need support to address their concerns and to find ways to ensure their children can be safe online.

Moreover, bans compel platforms to shift into compliance mode rather than focusing on building optimal digital environments.

While tighter regulation is necessary, I’m concerned that bans are very difficult and costly to enforce, and that those resources are better invested in building better digital environments for children and educating them and their families. Importantly, bans are unlikely to keep our children safer and may indeed risk exposing them to additional harm by creating environments that prevent them from seeking help when they need it.

Bans are unlikely to help those children who are most vulnerable online, which, research shows, are those who are already most socially marginalised and often don’t have the support of trusted adults.
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Reply #3 - Sep 10th, 2024 at 12:50pm
 
Queensland academic criticises Labor’s planned social media age ban


One of the blog powers that be has directed our attention to a LinkedIn post from Daniel Angus, the director of the Queensland University of Technology’s digital media research centre.

Angus echoes other peak body’s frustrations with the social media age verification push the government has adopted – because it is not based on evidence.

Angus:

The Australian federal government’s reckless decision this morning to impose an age ban on youth using social media – before the joint inquiry into social media in Australia has even issued a proper interim report from hundreds of expert submissions – shows utter disregard for evidence-based policy.

This kneejerk move undermines the joint inquiry and deliberative democratic principles and threatens to create serious harm by excluding young people from meaningful, healthy participation in the digital world, potentially driving them to lower quality online spaces, and removing an important means of social connection.

It also means that very large online platforms are going to be let off the hook in making necessary reforms to the quality of content on their platforms, as this simply places a gate at the door rather than improving what’s on the other side.

If this is how the Anthony Albanese government “listens” to experts, it seems the inquiry was just a sham to begin with. No doubt this populist policy will sell well with the older demographics, but it’s a misguided distraction from the necessary structural reforms that would provide long term benefit to youth in this country.
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Reply #4 - Sep 10th, 2024 at 12:58pm
 
It’s just a distraction labor is putting out to distract from their failure on housing and cost of living crisis.”

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Reply #5 - Sep 10th, 2024 at 3:31pm
 
There was a ban on little Donald John age 7 yeArs and 8 munths but he got round it.
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Reply #6 - Sep 10th, 2024 at 3:42pm
 
I believe it's about time we had some legislation to ensure that the person who's name the social media account is in is actually the one who does the posting.

For example, posts that appear on X (formerly Twitter) under the name "Anthony Albanese" are not made by him but done by some 'social media intern' working for him.

I doubt that he even reads them.

And, needless to say, "he" never replies to any of the people posting in "his" threads.

Same goes for the majority of politicians.
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Reply #7 - Sep 10th, 2024 at 3:43pm
 
Internet control is global trend now and age restriction is only one of many excuses to do it.
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Reply #8 - Sep 10th, 2024 at 4:08pm
 
Putin broadcasts his words, bans other sources and uses tallowood and RussianVeteran in Australia.
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Reply #9 - Sep 10th, 2024 at 4:09pm
 
It's all part of a wider plan to crack down on the internet and privacy:

https://reclaimthenet.org/australian-intelligence-official-threatens-to-ban-priv...



    Newsletter Archive: September 9, 2024      

Australian Intelligence Official Threatens To Ban Private Messaging


Another day, another attack on online encryption: now it’s the turn to (re)launch one by Australia’s spies, the Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO).

ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess is telling Big Tech to get ready for the day when encrypted communications on their platforms will no longer be safe and private for their users.

A government demanding that private companies create conditions for mass government surveillance, you may say? Burgess says, not at all.

(And has the arrest of Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov emboldened all manner of state actors in the mass surveillance “theater”? Perish the thought. /s)

But – commenting specifically on why he thinks now is the right time to bring back Australia’s encryption-breaking ambition, Burgess is quoted as saying by Australia’s ABC, “We’re not asking for mass surveillance. We need their cooperation.”

A – somewhat – formidable turn of phrase to signal coercion on the part of the government.


Standing on its own, it’s sort of acceptable, but Burgess wastes no time to reveal the ominous intent, through and through:

“If they (tech companies) don’t cooperate, then there’s a private conversation I need to have with government about what we accept or what I need to do my job more effectively.”

There is nothing new on the “Government Attempts to Break Encryption Front” here – it’s always the claim that law enforcement can only these days do their job with this backbone of the internet’s not only privacy but also security (consider your bank account transactions!) – broken.

Here’s Burgess’ other thoughts that may or may not sit well with Australia’s public and law, such as that those who are considered “a threat to security” (and let’s remind ourselves, these attempts to gain access to communications are about investigative efforts – therefore, targeting people who should be innocent until proven guilty).

With that in mind, somebody perceived as “a threat to security” in Australia, according to Burgess – loses the right to privacy. Just as a suspect!

“I’ve been asking for those companies that build messaging apps (to) respond to the lawful requests. So when I have a warrant you give me access to that communication,” the ASIO director expressed his pattern of thinking – and frustrations.
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Reply #10 - Sep 10th, 2024 at 4:50pm
 
chimera wrote on Sep 10th, 2024 at 4:08pm:
Putin broadcasts his words, bans other sources and uses tallowood and RussianVeteran in Australia.


So you were promoted, before it was only Lavrov and now Putin himself visits you  Shocked

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Reply #11 - Sep 10th, 2024 at 6:13pm
 
Of course. Broadcasting is personal. Putin to tallowood who hears his voice. Tallowood to Oz. Putin is big brother to everyone.
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Reply #12 - Sep 10th, 2024 at 9:44pm
 

Have they explained how they mistakenly believe they can enforce it?

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Reply #13 - Sep 11th, 2024 at 7:32am
 
Carl D wrote on Sep 10th, 2024 at 3:42pm:
I believe it's about time we had some legislation to ensure that the person who's name the social media account is in is actually the one who does the posting.

For example, posts that appear on X (formerly Twitter) under the name "Anthony Albanese" are not made by him but done by some 'social media intern' working for him.

I doubt that he even reads them.

And, needless to say, "he" never replies to any of the people posting in "his" threads.

Same goes for the majority of politicians.


while you are at it why dont you advocate for proof of identity to post here?

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Reply #14 - Sep 11th, 2024 at 9:47pm
 
No, no, NO!!  The Grappler Method.

EVERY device, computer, tablet, phone - may only be purchased by someone over 16, and is automatically restricted in what social media it can access.  ONLY when a person has verified that they are an adult, and that the device is for their use or their children's with restrictions, can they purchase at all, and they also have to purchase a licence to use porn and other garbage. Call me old-fashioned or anything else - you won't find that kind of crap in my history.

Tricky, I know - the rascals will always pinch them and use them while dad's on a study tour or something .. but still ... any responsible parent would not have a device that accesses serious porn and info on getting your balls and ovaries cut out etc.... what f
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cking parent would let their kid access that sh
i
t anyway, or want it for self and the object of porn fantasy or whoever it is?

One way of tracking Pedro Files is keeping track of anyone who buys the licence to open such sh
i
t ...  they can be tracked and monitored in their usage...

Hunt them all down.
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