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[ PRIVACY Forum ] [Train wreck] About the Australia social media
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lauren Weinstein)
Sun Dec 7 10:57:17 2025
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2025 07:50:07 -0800
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[Train wreck] About the Australia social media ban for under 16s that
starts in a few days
It's going to be an absolute train wreck. Reports are everywhere that
kids are way ahead, with VPNs, AI apps to create fake faces for age
verification and much more. In fact, apparently about a third of
Australian parents are helping their kids circumvent the ban. It's
one of the most deeply stupid actions taken by any supposedly
democratic countries in contemporary history, and it will not end well
for the politicos pushing this unworkable approach. Watch and see.
L
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