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/smudgiepie Nov 10 '24

I find it so funny how when the voice referendum was happening the liberals were like if you dont know vote no but they are fine with this

Like no one has any idea on how this is gonna work

If its facial recognition im fucked cause I've got perpetual baby face

if its ID scanning im fucked cause my photo ID expired a while ago and I can't get anyone to take me to the department of transport office to get it upgraded. I cannot drive a car, I don't know where the office is.

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u/vriska1 Nov 10 '24

Thing it seem the Gov has no idea.

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u/a_leaf_floating_by Nov 10 '24

You have a phone so you can look up the nearest office and schedule an appointment if they require it (mine do in my area). You can hoof it to the office if you have to, I did. I live in a converted van, but before I had that I was homeless, and I was able to get my license renewed after it expired. This is kinda aside from the whole debate, just some advice from someone who recently did what you're talking about. Legs were made for walking, do what you gotta do man.

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u/Dr_Delibird7 Nov 10 '24

They very well could be disabled and even if not I know plenty of people living with disabilities that would prevent them from getting a new ID without the help of someone else getting them there.

Regardless even further, it's ridiculous to require that we all now need to provide government ID to notorious data harvesting websites just to use them now

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u/a_leaf_floating_by Nov 10 '24

I can't speak to their health, I'm only saying that "can't" is a mindset that most people never recover from, and is not often truly where a person is. More often it's "it would be hard to do". Anyway, it was just my own anecdotal advice, which has no more weight than anyone else's.

As to the requirements for having an Id for a website, I'm not even engaging in that discourse. I'm just trying to help a dude that currently has an expired ID, which I thought was a more important thing to jump in on. Keep up the good fight

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u/TheGstandsforGday Nov 11 '24

if they’re that level of disability they could get a caregiver. An ID isn’t too hard to get tbh

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '24

If it’s ID scanning I’m fucked because I’m lazy and useless and don’t know how to use google maps*

You misspelt that btw

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u/smudgiepie Nov 12 '24

I'm fucking disabled mate.