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Australia social media ban hits 4.7 million teen accounts in first month (www.reuters.com)
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SYDNEY, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Social media companies have collectively deactivated nearly five million accounts belonging to Australian teenagers just a month after a world-first ban on under‑16s took effect, the country's internet regulator said, a sign the measure has had a swift and sweeping impact.

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[–] 1 point 9 months ago

Not only Id. like many new Id verification systems, that have the ALT option of taking a selfie... Which is easily bypassed by any AI image, or searching for "picture of a man" and taking a """"selfie""" of that.

Or using a relative's ID. As of now they don't care to check if the ID or Picture matches the social media profile, I guess they (social media platforms) only care about complying even if the implementation is flawy

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