I’m going through my social media profiles retrieving anything I might want to keep and deciding who to give an email address to. Perhaps a vpn might help me continue using them but then if I get caught that’s it.
I’m not expecting many people with weaker ties to keep in contact if I close them.
Ps. This isn’t actually going to protect children, just drive them underground and into unregulated spaces. It’s 100% a grab for surveillance/control and cheap political point scoring on the part of the Australian government
What are your specific concerns with the legislation? Are you expecting to be asked to upload your passport to continue using Instagram or something similar?
I’ve read the legislation and watched a fair bit of the senate enquiry into it. We don’t know yet what “reasonable steps” are to “assure” someone’s age (because they get published in legislative rules that have not been authored yet), but they don’t necessarily require linking with a RL identity. An example was given that it would likely be “reasonable” for Facebook to assume that the account holder is at least 16 if the account is more than 16 years old. So given mine is turning 17 in November I personally don’t expect any Meta products to ask me to assure my age using any method that involves my government identity.
Additionally, affected social media platforms can’t ask for government ID if that is the only age assurance method they offer. Some other methods include user interaction (does the user write posts like someone who is >16?) and facial age estimation (do they look >16 in their face pics?).
I’m just saying no need to panic and plan ahead for deletion just yet. If the legislative rules are “good” (as good as they can be in the circumstances) then you might not notice a different at all.
The writing style is very subjective… Mine are newer (remade) and I won’t be giving any more face pics. Or any personal pics at all after that AI scraping with no opt out. Also one is not my government name for safety reasons.
I’m going through my social media profiles retrieving anything I might want to keep and deciding who to give an email address to. Perhaps a vpn might help me continue using them but then if I get caught that’s it.
I’m not expecting many people with weaker ties to keep in contact if I close them.
Ps. This isn’t actually going to protect children, just drive them underground and into unregulated spaces. It’s 100% a grab for surveillance/control and cheap political point scoring on the part of the Australian government
What are your specific concerns with the legislation? Are you expecting to be asked to upload your passport to continue using Instagram or something similar?
I refuse to tie my rl identity to my online presence. Some things I need to such as ordering essentials but this can go get fucked
Edit: I’m not giving them any of this. Or my myGov. https://theconversation.com/australias-social-media-ban-for-kids-under-16-just-became-law-how-it-will-work-remains-a-mystery-244736
I’ve read the legislation and watched a fair bit of the senate enquiry into it. We don’t know yet what “reasonable steps” are to “assure” someone’s age (because they get published in legislative rules that have not been authored yet), but they don’t necessarily require linking with a RL identity. An example was given that it would likely be “reasonable” for Facebook to assume that the account holder is at least 16 if the account is more than 16 years old. So given mine is turning 17 in November I personally don’t expect any Meta products to ask me to assure my age using any method that involves my government identity.
Additionally, affected social media platforms can’t ask for government ID if that is the only age assurance method they offer. Some other methods include user interaction (does the user write posts like someone who is >16?) and facial age estimation (do they look >16 in their face pics?).
I’m just saying no need to panic and plan ahead for deletion just yet. If the legislative rules are “good” (as good as they can be in the circumstances) then you might not notice a different at all.
The writing style is very subjective… Mine are newer (remade) and I won’t be giving any more face pics. Or any personal pics at all after that AI scraping with no opt out. Also one is not my government name for safety reasons.
I’m trying to plan for deletion. Fuck facebook