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Australia's social media ban for under-16s comes with a "try again" button (olaiol.com)
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Nine months in, the only thing anyone has counted is accounts, and accounts aren't kids. Australia's regulator found platforms letting under-16s retry the age check until they passed. France voted a similar ban this summer and its Constitutional Council struck it down: to check the kids you have to check everyone, and the law had no privacy guarantees for the adults. Meanwhile the two big US reviews of the evidence disagree on whether social media causes harm at all.

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[–] [S] 1 point 1 month ago

An LLM telling you to clear your cache is the most 2026 support experience imaginable. Your myID point is exactly what sank France's version: its Constitutional Council struck the law down because to check the kids you have to check everyone, and nothing protected the adults' data. Australia built the same honey pot and called it child safety.

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