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🃏Joker@sh.itjust.works to AustraliaEnglish · 6 months ago

Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery

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Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery

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🃏Joker@sh.itjust.works to AustraliaEnglish · 6 months ago
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The ban won’t take effect for at least 12 months. But key details about it are still missing – including how social media platforms will actually verify users’ age.
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    If that’s the case, we just all pack up and take over some British instance.

    A little payback for the colonisation /s

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      A possible ban on social media for under-16s in the UK is “on the table”, the technology secretary Peter Kyle has told the BBC.

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        Ah shit

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        Watch out jlai.lu the aussies are comin!

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