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Australians to face age checks from search engines

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139 points stubish | 2 comments | 01 Jul 25 23:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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jackvalentine ◴[02 Jul 25 01:03 UTC] No.44439355[source]▶
Australians are broadly supportive of these kind of actions - there is a view that foreign internet behemoths have failed to moderate for themselves and will therefore have moderation imposed on them however imperfect.

Can’t say I blame them.

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SchemaLoad ◴[02 Jul 25 02:13 UTC] No.44439676[source]▶
I'm split on it. 100% agree that kids being off social media is better for society. But I can't see how it could be enforced without privacy implications for adults.
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2muchcoffeeman ◴[02 Jul 25 03:51 UTC] No.44440104[source]▶
Don’t buy them devices and lock down your computer and networks.

I guess if a teenager is enterprising enough to get a job and save up and buy their own devices and pay for their own internet then more power to them.

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SchemaLoad ◴[02 Jul 25 04:04 UTC] No.44440149[source]▶
Obviously an impossible task. Kids need computers for school, and every school provides laptops. Kids don't need access to social media.
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1718627440 ◴[02 Jul 25 06:39 UTC] No.44440811{3}[source]▶
No? This was how it was for me. And the only downside was, that all the other kids are glued to their smartphones.

Why is this even controverse. Is there any rational reason why kids should have smartphones? The only reason I see is to let the big companies earn money and because adults don't want to admit, that they are addicted themselves.

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1. SchemaLoad ◴[03 Jul 25 00:02 UTC] No.44450162{4}[source]▶
Don't know how long ago you went to school, but at least in Australia, every student is provided a personal laptop for school work which is capable of connecting to social media. Maybe you could block it on your home wifi, but that't a step beyond what most people are capable of. And you'd be an extremely unpopular parent if you were the only one blocking social media while every other kid continues to arrange event invites on Facebook

Blocking it at the service level would be significantly more effective and mean all kids would have to socialise and send using IM platforms instead.

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2. 2muchcoffeeman ◴[03 Jul 25 02:51 UTC] No.44451180[source]▶
So educate parents or rethink what they need laptops for?

I didn’t say it was going to be easy. But all the middle aged guys who created all these tech startups that are rotting your children’s brains didn’t grow up with this level of technology.

So it’s clearly possible. Does the government or parents have the will to make the change? Maybe not.