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The law would make Australia one of the first countries in the world to impose an age restriction on social media, but opponents say it could drive online activity underground.

Australia plans to set a minimum age limit for children to use social media citing concerns about mental and physical health, drawing a backlash from digital rights advocates who warn the measure could drive dangerous online activity underground.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his center-left government would run an age verification trial before introducing age minimum laws for social media this year.

Albanese did not specify an age but said it would most likely be between 14 and 16.

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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

CNN heavily censors what they show online. They don't show an actual beheading, they'll show a few minutes before it happens with faces blurred, but thats about it. But did you never really randomly get sent some fucked up videos? No 2 girls 1 cup, 1 guy 1 jar, meatspin etc? Kids don't want to see it, but they'll accidentally see it.

Honestly what I hate the most about the video is that 3rd places only briefly get a mention. But at the same time it makes sense since the video is about advertising to tweens and not just overall their mental wellbeing. It just happens to touch on the topic pretty well.

[–] Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 month ago

did you not get sent some fucked up videos

Oh yeah, all that shit, I wasn't talking about porn and fetish stuff though cause my comment was getting long, was just talking about actual atrocities like war, famine genocide etc. I don't think preteens have an interest in that stuff. They definitely do have an interest in porn / gross stuff but I'm not convinced that stuff is necessarily detrimental or traumatic. I'm open to being convinced but most of the arguments seem to be pearl clutching about them losing their innocence and anecdotally I know most of my friends watched porn / gross videos at that age and turned out fine and don't mention it as some traumatic or life changing experience unless they tie it up with some religious guilt.