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Australia bans social media for under 16s (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 day ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 50 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

The second i have to hand over my id to a tech company is the second i leave and never come back.

Also how they gonna manage the fediverse? Can someone get fined for providing social media to themselves if an under 16 sets up their own federated instance?

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

In my country they talked about this. And they thought of a different approach.

The government were to emit anonymous digital certificates after validate your identity. And then the websites were only required to validate these anonymous digital certificates.

Or even it was talk that the government could put a certificate validation in front of the affected ip.

So the bussiness won't have your ip. Only a verification by the government that you are indeed over certain age.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 minutes ago

What if I'm also uncomfortable with the tech company knowing what country I'm a citizen of?