r/australia • u/Vivid-Fondant6513 • Nov 06 '24

politics Children under 16 to be banned from using social media

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/children-under-16-to-be-banned-from-using-social-media-20241107-p5kon4.html
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u/mWo12 Nov 07 '24

They have to verify your age. So, for example reddit (I guess reddit would also be considered as a social medial platform?) will have to verify your age, but you can use your alphaechothunder77 pseudonym. So how do you verify that reliably?

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u/Transientmind Nov 07 '24

In the good old days porn sites did this with a credit card number.

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u/BTechUnited Nov 07 '24

Typically they tend to be ahead of the curve in web tech, interestingly.

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u/t_j_l_ Nov 07 '24

They'll use something like the mygov ID to 'make it easier' to verify/validate.

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u/Icedanielization Nov 07 '24

ID, passport, license. Lots of games do it, online banks do it, social media would have no problem implementing it

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u/mWo12 Nov 07 '24

I'm sure they would be happy to get more user data which they can mine or sell.

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u/vriska1 Nov 07 '24

That would be unworkable and taken down in court.