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Australia’s teen social media ban is a flop. But there’s no joy in ‘I told you so’ (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] TheDarkQuark@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (5 children)

How are they getting around it? I thought Australia implemented some sort of ID verification? And given that social media platforms notoriously refuse to run on VPNs, how are the teenagers bypassing the checks? Is everyone there using their parent's ID or something?!

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 week ago

I thought Australia implemented some sort of ID verification?

To answer the question as written, you did think so. I'm mostly certain of this. Glad I could help.

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[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The vast majority of new systems throughout history have required some iterative refinement, the fact that this specific implementation attempt didn't work perfectly on day one isn't a particularly strong argument against the concept, and there are plenty of good arguments to be made against it

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