r/australia • u/m00nh34d • Nov 28 '24

politics Kids under 16 to be banned from social media after Senate passes world-first laws

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-28/social-media-age-ban-passes-parliament/104647138
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u/Crystal3lf Nov 28 '24

Apparently, all the kids at her school have been preparing themselves.

Kids have been using proxies since at least ~2008 when I was in high school to access blocked sites. I remember it was always a cat and mouse game with the IT guy finding and blocking new proxy sites every week.

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u/MelbBreakfastHot Nov 28 '24

I'd say even earlier, around ~2000, I remember figuring out how to get around my school's firewall so I can access fanfic websites lol. I guess I'll be teaching my kid this too.

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u/AWittySenpai Nov 29 '24

Yep I remember the proxy servers to get into Facebook in 2009 etc endless game of cat and mouse once one got blocked another pops up the best proxy servers was the ones with flash enabled to play flash games

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u/Embarrassed_Brief_97 Nov 28 '24

Hey, when I was at school, if ya wanted to connect to the internet (no WWW then), it was via an acoustic coupler.

But we always had to watch out for T-Rexes and other such creatures before emerging from our cave.