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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

Because when you talk about protection or safety for children or animals or [insert vulnerable group here] you can short-circuit a lot of people's reason/skepticism.

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