South Australia is proposing a law to ban kids under 14 from social media. How would it work?
South Australia is proposing a law to ban kids under 14 from social media. How would it work?
Children under 14 would be banned from social media, while teens aged 14–15 would need parental consent. But this law will be challenging to implement.
People only focus on the tech solution of this. We don't make ciggys or booze impossible for kids to injest.
Socialy its not responsible to let your kids drink or smoke. Even behind ose doors.
I think a large part of the tech change is society itself. It needs to become taboo to let kids use the devices and services. Along with understanding the risks (addiction to tech, isolation, depression, being influenced etc). Funily enough the risks aren't only for children it's for all of us.
Today's justification for digital identity and state tracking of your browser history: "Think of the children!".
It’s a legitimate societal issue. The mental health and social damage it’s doing to children should not be an accepted as a social media functionality. I don’t know what the answer is, but surely there is a way to achieve both privacy for adult users and age identification for children.
There’d have to be a way of checking people’s identity, and thus their age, whenever they create an account, and it would have to be legally mandated for any online sites where people can post user-generated content. Of course, this would eliminate online anonymity, so as long as we see ourselves as less oppressive than Communist China, there would have to be mitigations to say that we’re not really eliminating online anonymity. Perhaps some sort of third-party age verification agent, which would check identity and just let the sites know if a user is verified to be over the age threshold. This would have to be strictly regulated to ensure data doesn’t leak.
Of course, given that this is Australia, the police would have access to the mapping of people’s identities to online accounts, though under strict safeguards to ensure that this access is only used in the direst emergencies. Of course, this being ‘straya, the safeguards would be like a locked gate on a path with only a KEEP OFF THE GRASS sign preventing the cops from walking around it. Within 18 months, a cop will have used this to put the frighteners on his ex-wife’s new man or something similar. Within 3 years, all pretence will have been abandoned and everyone from the ATO to local councils will have access to the real-world IDs of people’s online accounts.
You forgot the part where the digital mapping data is hacked and goes up for sale on the darkweb.
Within 18 months, a cop will have used this to put the frighteners on his ex-wife’s new man or something similar. Within 3 years, all pretence will have been abandoned and everyone from the ATO to local councils will have access to the real-world IDs of people’s online accounts.
This is like word-for-word how every single digital police tool has gone so far in this country.
Before a thing comes in there's a huge uproar about the damages it could cause, it comes in causes damages, public goes 'oh well' and we keep the thing.
At no point do we ever look back and say 'Hmm no let's undo that thing we only implemented a few months ago, it's clearly harmful to the public. We're in a losing war, where soon even worse will be normalised.
There’d have to be a way of checking people’s identity, and thus their age, whenever they create an account, and it would have to be legally mandated for any online sites where people can post user-generated content.
Older siblings, friends, and organized students would just create multiple accounts and hand them over to younger kids. Also, a lot of adults would just create accounts for their kids.
It would be a keep off the grass sign no matter who implements it.
Stupid duplicate posts
it won't.
Should be under 40
Great in theory all it will take in practice is handing over government id to any social media site. We are willingly dancing down an authoritarian path and nobody seems to give a shit.