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Australia’s under-16s social media ban is weeks away. How will it work – and how can I appeal if I’m wrongly banned? (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] Pappabosley@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

To be fair to the tech companies, the government has really left them holding the ball on this thing they didn't ask for. The government did a little bit of age verification testing, found it was occasionally actuate in certain circumstances for a small portion of the population, then said good enough and told the tech companies to figure it out or we'll fine you millions. The government then goes around taking all the credit for pretending to do something about "protecting" children and will just blame the tech companies when it all goes to shit. At the end of the day, it's only stopping them from having accounts, they can still watch all the trash on YouTube and tiktok logged out and will be fingerprinted by their device to tune the algorithm.

[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The worst part is I can’t block dodgy recommended channels without being signed in. And yeah, it does still behave algorithmically for me.

So kids are still going to be seeing manosphere content, MLM crap, and whatever else. Not to mention alcohol and gambling ads if those haven’t successfully been blocked (which has been made harder to do without having premium unless you know how)