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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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[–] 4 points 8 months ago

Bans only work in paper. In practice they're just making it slightly harder. If there's an obstacle there's also way around it.

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