Re: Banning Social Media For Under-16s

Rod Speed wrote:

On Sat, 17 May 2025 22:38:44 +1000, MightyMouse <squeak!@cheesefactory.com> wrote:
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Rod Speed wrote:

On Sat, 17 May 2025 12:39:36 +1000, MightyMouse <squeak!@cheesefactory.com> wrote:
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BR wrote:

On Thu, 15 May 2025 07:22:18 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
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Australia has put in place a law to ban access to social media for
under-16s, and New Zealand is looking to follow suit. Here is an
interview, by Samantha Hayes of Stuff, of the “Premier” (as the
Aussies insist on calling the state Chief Ministers in their
Federation -- don’t they know that “Premier” is shortened journalese
for “Prime Minister”?) of South Australia, Peter Malinauskas, the
instigator of the Aussie law
<https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360690772/one-thing-architect-australias-social-media-ban-under-16s-would-do-differently>. One of our local pro-right-wing-wannabe parties insists the law would
be “unworkable”. Yes, Malinauskas admits that bans on underage
smoking, drinking and now social media are never 100% effective. But
they greatly reduce the incidence of the activity, and that is what
leads to harm reduction.
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Certainly, relying on the social media companies to police themselves
is never going to work. Because if it had worked, we would have seen
the results, after more than 20 years of their activities. The fact
that things are, if anything, worse now than when they started, shows
the uselessness of trusting them.

Banning under 16s from social media will be impossible unless some
sort of digital ID is issued to everyone and which would be required
for internet access.

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and so we march ever onward towards microchip implants

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Fantasy
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people are already doing it

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EVERYONE isnt

never said it was happening now with everyone. I said it will eventually happen. we have everything on our phones now, ID, drivers licence, credit cards, tap and go, etc., it's the next logical step to put all this into us. tap and go chip payment was even happening six years go .. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61008730
https://www.govtech.com/blogs/lohrmann-on-cybersecurity/from-progress-to-bans-how-close-are-human-microchip-implants
and Elon Musk has taken it even a step further already .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL6nej4am3c

and isnt even doing that for their pets
even tho that is a legal requirement and no govt would
ever be stupid enough to require that for internet access
and complete trivial to bypass that even if they did
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  This legislation is insidious and must be opposed
at every opportunity.
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It is up to parents to supervise their children's online activity, not
politicians.
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Bill.
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