The REAL intent is revealed below..
But the current legislation offers almost no details on how the rules will be enforced
Posted on 11/28/2024 8:40:24 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Australian lawmakers passed landmark rules to ban under 16s from social media on Thursday, approving one of the world's toughest crackdowns on popular sites like Facebook, Instagram and X.
The bill has now passed both parliamentary chambers with bipartisan support, and social media firms will soon be expected to take "reasonable steps" to prevent young teens from having accounts.
The firms -- who face fines of up to Aus$50 million (US$32.5 million) for failing to comply -- have described the laws as "vague", "problematic" and "rushed".
The legislation passed parliament's lower chamber on Wednesday and passed the Senate late on Thursday evening. It is now all but certain to become law.
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If you want to know where this goes, it will be like cigarettes.
Good luck enforcing that.
In fact, that law will probably cause under 16 usage of social media to soar.
Australia is the ultimate nanny state. Founded and run by inmates.
“social media firms will soon be expected to take “reasonable steps” to prevent young teens from having accounts.”
Click the “Yes” button when asked “Are you 16 or older?” That’ll really work.
What could possibly go wrong?
Young people will learn a hard lesson from this:
“Never trust anyone over thirty.”
I suppose the State will go after parents who let their kids Facebook.
Yet parents can’t do a thing about it if the State decides your kid can transgender.
The legacy of England’s rule seems to be “rule by your betters”;1984 was set in England after all.
The REAL intent is revealed below..
But the current legislation offers almost no details on how the rules will be enforced
I don’t think the State can dictate a rule and replace parental supervision.
NOTE: Parents (2 if possible) must exist in the household and be proactive in their childrens’ development.
If I’m facebook, the solution is simple.
No Australian use whatsoever.
Sounds like they’ll enforce it by punishing the companies without saying how the companies are supposed to keep kids out of their sites, or evening knowing the age of the people that use their sites.
Are they going to issue and enforce a “social media license” that you must have to access a site?
The only way to ensure compliance will be to positively identify each user.
This is the real purpose of the law: to eliminate anonymity, so the government can demand the identity of anyone who posts anything they object to.
“evening” - even
Victim of auto fill.
A wise manager once told me, never issue an order you know will not be followed. It undermines your authority in all things and makes you irrelevant.
A friend had accidentally left his phone in my car. I was halfway home, a distance of twenty miles. I was tired. I thought, “I’ll give it to him tomorrow.” I thought about how much he used it during the day. *Huge sigh* I turned around and drove back. He was in an utter panic. If I had waited a full night to return it, he’d have been in the ER.
“If I’m facebook, the solution is simple. No Australian use whatsoever.”
An even BETTER outcome for Australia, then.
They don’t need accounts...Mom has one. Stupid...
“never issue an order you know will not be followed. It undermines your authority in all things and makes you irrelevant.”
I think that understates the problem.
It makes you hated—and makes highly motivated underground resistance to you inevitable.
Add teenagers to the mix and you are talking about sparking a generational revolution.
The old timers who do this stuff will be lucky to escape with their heads intact.
During Covid, Australia turned itself back into a penal colony. Will cops break down people's doors again like they did back then to get to people who posted things on the internet?
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