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How will Australia's ban on youth access to social media affect instances hosted in Australia? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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Do they have any rule that says you need a minimum number of users on a site to fall under the law?

If servers of someinstance.co.au fine if they move to hosting in Finland?

It just feels like a nightmare.

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[–] 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

National level site blocking, suspension on any future operations, international courts

Easily circumvented by changing your DNS settings or using TOR or other VPN services

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  • [–] -4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Not when the specific IP addresses of services are blocked on IPS level - which would be mandated by the state.

    VPN/Tor, sure, but at that point the service itself can't confirm where the visitor is from, therefore Australian laws wouldn't apply.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    The second half of your comment is redundant. Not knowing where the user is from is THE WHOLE POINT of TOR and VPNs in general. It just proves that this whole internet censorship thing is doomed to fail. It just forces people to find a work-around that the government doesn't control.

    But hey, if the government wants to waste time and money pissing into the wind they can go for it, let's see where that gets them.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Except they're wasting tax payer money, which is shitty.

    I hope at least it helps reduce pressure on kids that they need social media from their peers, it can be a pretty bad place to be (regardless of age really).

    Thats about all the good from it, my fear is everything else that comes after. Mainly that they'll force devices to be linked to a person, which means you'll need a way to have approved devices that can access sites etc, which means you can only use a browser that has device attestation, which means no more free and open ecosystems of applications or operating systems (LineageOS, GrapheneOS, etc)...

    Fuck all this.

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