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Meta starts kicking Australian children off Instagram and Facebook (www.bbc.com)
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[โ€“] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

As the US Congressional commission on similar laws reported decades ago

  • age verification is ineffective with highly adverse impacts
  • client-side filtering[^parental-controls] is more effective with less adverse impacts.

Those conclusions still hold today.

[^parental-controls]: ie, parental controls, which have been available & widespread for ages. Parents supply their children with technology & pay for everything they have. It's entirely within their power to enable parental controls on all their children's devices instead of expect government to take over their parenting duties.

[โ€“] sleen@lemmy.zip 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

The state has no place for parenting children, the parents are there specifically for this.

All this is going to result in, is a half working system that has no understanding of the differences between a child and a adolescent - ultimately spewing out ageist tropes that will further dehumanise fully aware individuals.

Children should be engaged with and actively tailoring their scope of internet usage - and as they grow up to be adolescents, freedom should be provided. This is all active, growing with the individual for the individual.