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caseybriggs.com • 98 days ago

Here is the government's proposed definition of an age-restricted social media service.
https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;db=LEGISLATION;id=legislation%2Fbills%2Fr7284_first-reps%2F0001;query=Id%3A%22legislation%2Fbills%2Fr7284_first-reps%2F0000%22;rec=0

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djraison.bsky.social•98 days ago

The age restriction should be for over 60s because half the time we have no idea what’s going on ,on social media .

jodievdw.bsky.social•98 days ago

I worry so much about what Dad (in his 80s) soaks up from Instagram. Between English not being his first language + not being digitally savvy, he comes up with the wildest interpretations of what he sees. He saw an unboxing video and thought it was Aus Post telling him he had a parcel to collect.

paddo42.bsky.social•98 days ago

iMessage then. SMS too. Email. As long as it’s not for business. 😂

davidrafferty.bsky.social•98 days ago

Yep. Reading (1), that describes email.

danielcaseycbr.bsky.social•98 days ago

There doesn’t seem to be a definition of “Australian child”. Does it apply to Australian citizens overseas? To foreign children temporarily in Australia?
Obligation is ongoing “having accounts” - so a foreign child enters Australia, or becomes a citizen….. then what?

augustusbrown.bsky.social•98 days ago

Would Whatsapp, Messenger, or data-based texting be caught up in this?

cheeserantsalone.bsky.social•98 days ago

My interpretation is that it would, to group chats on those platforms. What a shit fight this is going to be.

njbbari3.bsky.social•98 days ago

Can’t say I’m a fan of this legislation.

kenobee.bsky.social•98 days ago

Could this more blatantly be an attempt to prop up the failing Murdoch empire? JFC.

curiousitycat8.bsky.social•98 days ago

According to the draft, TOS of all major soc. media is 13yo as set by US law. So the proposal is to raise this to 16yo in order to safeguard more children ???

caseybriggs.com•98 days ago

It affects services where:
- their sole or significant purpose is to enable online social (but not business) interaction between 2 or more users
- Users can post material on the service

That would seemingly include platforms like YouTube

mslods.bsky.social•98 days ago

It definitely includes YouTube

daiwolf.bsky.social•98 days ago

That's like 90% of the internet, ffs

others-tide.bsky.social•98 days ago

That almost sounds like it stops texting between people.

caseybriggs.com•98 days ago

- The Minister can specify services as within scope by name, only where they are satisfied it is reasonably necessary to minimise harm to age-restricted users
- The Minister can also specifically name services that are not age-restricted

So there's essentially full ministerial discretion.

caseybriggs.com•98 days ago

The Government says it plans to make rules to exclude messaging apps, online gaming services, and "services with the primary purpose of supporting the health and education of end-users"

wendy59.bsky.social•98 days ago

"Plans to". You can plan to do something, but never actually do it.

caseybriggs.com•98 days ago

The government is not dictating how platforms are to comply with the rules, but, per the explanatory notes "at a minimum, the obligation will require platforms to implement
some form of age assurance"

caseybriggs.com•98 days ago

An entity that collects personal information for the purpose of age-verification "must destroy the information after using or disclosing it for the purposes for which it was collected"

wendy59.bsky.social•98 days ago

The govt has no way to actually monitor "destruction" of personal information. Weasel words.

john-ready.bsky.social•98 days ago

But surely that verification would be required for the rest of the person's life in case they wish to join a new socmed site? And doubt that the age-verification services will be monitoring death notices, so in effect no such destruction will ever happen! Rules by technically illiterate pollies!

caseybriggs.com•98 days ago

The requirement is that age-restricted social media platforms "must take reasonable steps to prevent age-restricted users having accounts" on their platform

So this law would not seem to apply to platforms you can use without accounts, for example, 4Chan.

iancwhitney.bsky.social•98 days ago

"WARNING: THIS SITE IS AGE RESTRICTED.

YummyGrandpaFeetOnSexyTwinks supports the use of parental control software. Please confirm you are over 18 by clicking this box."

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