But how goods betting on sports?

Is this social media under-16 ban going to be a problem for aussie.zone?

"Angry American that profits from promoting US companies that make trillions from gathering personal data, attacks Australia, calling the country stupid for attempting to protect it's children from said companies"

Sounds like a good idea tbh ;)

Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube

As well as:

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/28/g-s1-36142/australia-social-media-ban-children

The law will make platforms including TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X and Instagram liable for fines of up to 50 million Australian dollars ($33 million) for systemic failures to prevent children younger than 16 from holding accounts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Amendment

It sounds like, from my quick skim, that their criteria would also apply to the Threadiverse, as I don't see any sort of userbase size or revenue restrictions on their definition of its scope. Here's the bill text:

(1) For the purposes of this Act, age-restricted social media platform means:
(a) an electronic service that satisfies the following conditions:
(i) the sole purpose, or a significant purpose, of the service is to enable online social interaction between 2 or more end-users;
(ii) the service allows end-users to link to, or interact with, some or all of the other end-users;
(iii) the service allows end-users to post material on the service;
(iv) such other conditions (if any) as are set out in the legislative rules; or
(b) an electronic service specified in the legislative rules;but does not include a service mentioned in subsection (6).
Note 1: Online social interaction does not include (for example) online business interaction.
Note 2: An age-restricted social media platform may be, but is not necessarily, a social media service under section 13.19
Note 3: For specification by class, see subsection 13(3) of the Legislation Act 2003.

Subsection (6):

(6) An electronic service is not an age-restricted social media platform if:
(a) none of the material on the service is accessible to, or delivered to, one or more end-users in Australia; or
(b) the service is specified in the legislative rules.

I'm sure that there will be more discussion on this that will probably clarify it.

For the moment, I'm pretty confident based on past case law that the US legal system won't consider a US-based Threadiverse instance that isn't actively doing something like advertising to users specifically in Australia or selling products to Australia to be within the legal jurisdiction of Australia, as it won't be doing business in Australia, so the US legal system will not enforce Australian law against it. Australia might block a node but shouldn't be able to fine someone, so blacklisting Australian IP addresses or the like probably isn't necessary. One notable issue: I don't know off the top of my head whether instances accepting donations from Australian users could be affected.

I don't know what the EU's position on Internet jurisdiction is.

That might be a much more substantial problem for Australia-based instances, like

to name one that comes to mind

aussie.zone.

I don't agree with a total ban, but the writers of the article downplaying the harmful content on YouTube I think have forgotten the multiple times YouTube has gotten in trouble with advertisers for shit like "elsagate" where they were showing mutilation etc. of Disney characters targeted at children.

There needed to be some kind of regulation, but an outright ban is a bit much.

This feels like they're trying to drive a tack with a sledgehammer.

16 is definitely extreme, but having gone to war with YouTube's junk to small kids and finding out there's no preventing them falling down some junk rabbit hole, I'm pretty cool with it up to about 12.

They've been a Murdoch-influenced cesspool politically for years now, this is par for the course for them; just more social control by the government under the guise of protecting kids.

Gotta stop kids from learning about the wider world until they've had their worldview shaped to their regressive government's liking.

A little bit over dramatic...

Another country bringing age verification.

I wonder why they lock on youtube and ignore Facebook, Instagram, tiktok, etc.

Huh? This is good news for the kids. I have seen too many kids sticking to their iPads all the time.

They should ban cell phones and tablets for children. TikFok and other borderline idiotic media are unnecessary for the healthy development of a rational human being. Go outside more often!

I'm... furiously glad?

Hurts big tech þat's become so enshittified it's unwatchable? Check!

Age blocks and limiting teen freedom, which should be þe parent's jobs? Booo.

I don't know wheþer to laugh, or cry. So I say to myself, "what's next, big sky?"

Hey, Youtube outright refuses to moderate hate content. Play stupid games...

My concern is enforceability, much as with the ongoing porn bans. That and age verification online as a concept, which seems like a massive privacy issue that is still easily bypassed. Although honestly Google probably already knows your age if you're on Youtube, along with your shoe size and pooping schedule.

Should ban everyone from watching YouTube tbh

Let’s see how this works out. Banning alcohol, cigarettes and other stuff works half of the time, so it seems healthy to me to try and block SoMe including jutub

Mike Masnick writes with his agenda clear.

The anger-driven drivel is ironic given how many times he refers to Australia as stupid. It's possibly the worst, most single sided article I've read in a long time, if not ever.

Taking one perspective and running with it, even his single sightedness is narrow from the side he sits on.

I presume he named the publication after the way he posts his agenda.. Pure dirt.

Not a single mention of privacy issues other than age verification systems, which is fucking laughable. Fuck off Masnick with your bullshit.

Idea is great. Unfortunately unenforceable, though. The oligarchical internet is bad for brains. If they could come up with a way to do it without stripping everyone’s right to privacy I’d be all for it.

Stuff like this is why I prefer leftists over liberals

So... How does one get to one of the alternate realities so often depicted in things like the Marvel movies? They've gotta be better than this quickly deteriorating shithole....