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Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban (www.reuters.com)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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After reading about this on hacker news, I get why they do it. Its to make people upload identification documents, to get them prepped to authenticate for using the internet. Now the world makes sense again. I was wondering why they would do something positive. But now I get it.

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[–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

online was one of the first positive queer places i had since i didn't have anything irl; stef sanjati was also the first out trans person who made me realise i could do this.
which i suspect is the entire reasoning for the ban.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 8 months ago*

    Probably bigger than that - they want to make all of us feel watched. But yeah, its worse if you are in a group the US government is currently oppressing. The way things are going, I guess we all will be in some kind of a group like that sooner or later. Like "social media terrorist" for having negative opinions about the US online.

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