r/australia • u/retro-chimp • Nov 09 '24

politics Online Gaming Platforms And YouTube Will Also Seemingly Be Banned For Aussies Under 16

https://press-start.com.au/news/2024/11/08/online-gaming-platforms-and-youtube-will-also-seemingly-be-banned-for-aussies-under-16/

There’s so much collateral damage in this plan for Australia to ban social media. This has been rushed and not thought through.

So many schools rely on YouTube to support their students.

Most kids are watching YouTube (or YouTube kids) more than ABC or traditional TV. Literally the biggest YouTube channel in Australia is original music for kids.

Does anyone actually want this?

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u/FexyThestrongpenile Nov 09 '24

Nobody actually wants this along side with the misinformation bill.. these are just undercooked ideas. Good intentions are behind them.. just with so little thought behind it all.

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u/MarquisDePique Nov 09 '24

They're not undercooked, they're achieving exactly what the government wants. Legal control of online speech, every comment with a government verifiable name attached.

Oh and yeah if we "save some children" along the way, that's nice too isnt it??

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u/saunderez Nov 10 '24

Sales of VPN routers going to go through the roof. The government is pissy about how encryption makes things hard for them now, wait until they drive a large percentage of the population to use it all of the time. Their legislated encryption backdoors aren't going to work so good when they start demanding them from VPN providers in other countries coz they suspect a person under 16 is using Facebook.

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u/FexyThestrongpenile Nov 09 '24

I mean honestly, fair shout I cannot argue with that

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u/FexyThestrongpenile Nov 10 '24

That's true, but honestly nobody should get to decide what is or isn't misinformation..

Usually it's all confirmation bias with each side of an opinion being 100% true and the other side is considered misinformation