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Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery
(theconversation.com)
this post was submitted on 28 Nov 2024
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The act is online now. Lemmy is clearly defined as social media under Section 13a of the act.
Of course, I have no idea how we'll comply with the act - there's obviously no existing field or provision in the Lemmy Code to enter a private identifier as a user to confirm your age. We have a year to figure that out.
It's also hilarious to imagine international instances complying. Imagine the scenario: Kyrgyzstan has passed a law that states that all its users must provide an ID to use aussie.zone. Are we going to comply with this law? How many of our users are Kyrgyz? That's what this law appears to call for - asking our friends at lemmy.world (who are hosted in Finland) to comply with an Australian law because some of their users are Australian.
@Nath lemmy.world need to buck their ideas up
@Baku @Nath Oh. So even if I set some things up in Singapore (closest with decent latency I think) then I, being resident here, can still be punished for not requiring age verification on it? That seems helluva over-reach.
Mind you, whole concept is an over-reach.
@dsilverz
Other Australian Government advice is to use a VPN.
Even a free VPN via Proton gives me 35/18 Mbps via Tokyo.
So, unless they get ISPs to block access to VPNs, blocking an IP address won't work.
(I really hope I haven't given Albo any ideas here...)
@quokka1
The legislation specifically gives the Act extra-territorial powers to enforce the ban against foreign websites.
Reddit is specifically targetted ; it will definitely include Lemmy.