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Australia bans social media for under 16s (www.theverge.com)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd assume the law would include federated social media. And while that wouldn't prevent underage Australians to sign up with instances hosted elsewhere, it will impose restrictions on local ones, thus hurting the federation effort.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Take this social media law, plus the software backdoor nonsense from a few years ago, and I can't help but see a clear message emerging from legislators to Australian developers who'd seek to build great digital spaces and tools: Do not domicile anything in this country. Do not host anything on servers in this country. Expect hostility from authorities toward the anonymity, security, and privacy of the people using your code.

I hope you're wrong, and they're going to arbitarily apply the law to King Doge and Zuck, with everyone else getting ignored.