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Meta starts kicking Australian children off Instagram and Facebook (www.bbc.com)
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[โ€“] jobbies@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Usually I'm against this sort of thing but hear me out:

  • it'll at least keep SOME kids off social media
  • "kids will just use VPNs" >> some will, but maybe govs will finally realise how stupid trying to block things are and actually start regulating social media properly
  • "kids will just join other social medias" >> not great but maybe that'll help break meta's dominance?
[โ€“] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

kids will just use VPNs" >> some will, but maybe govs will finally realise how stupid trying to block things are and actually start regulating social media properly

We're seeing in real time that some (US) states that pass these stupid age verification laws are already going after VPNs instead of realizing their law is dumb.

I can guarantee they're going to try to completely outlaw VPNs before they do any kind of meaningful regulation on social media, when they can use that as a massive data warehouse by making favorable decisions to the oligarchs running them.