Online Safety Act UK Jul 2025

[Crassmeister]

meanwhile, in Australia

Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube

Last fall, heavily influenced by Jonathan Haidt’s extremely problematic book, Australia announced that it was banning social media for everyone under the age of 16. This was already a horrifically …

www.techdirt.com

 

[Quence]

meanwhile, in Australia

Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube

Last fall, heavily influenced by Jonathan Haidt’s extremely problematic book, Australia announced that it was banning social media for everyone under the age of 16. This was already a horrifically …

www.techdirt.com

Good lord, @Likeicare, what has happened to your country?

 

[Likeicare]

what has happened to your country?

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1748

 

[finlaypatrickduffill]

That doesn't read like they're restricting access to social media outright

 

[Call Me Tim]

Its ok theyre only on the other side of the city

Wait until they discover public transportation.

Idk, does it matter. Its a dumb law and everyone including the government knows that

But that's the point. They passed it anyway. They'll be eager to prove it works.

 

[Likeicare]

That doesn't read like they're restricting access to social media outright

Social media in australia wont be restricted either?

 

[Likeicare]

They'll be eager to prove it works.

No they wont

 

[Quence]

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1748

No, I asked what has happened to YOUR country? Your country is BANNING social media for anyone under the age of 16.

The US bill has simply been proposed (it hasn’t passed the House or Senate) and it does not call for the banning of social media for teens.

 

[finlaypatrickduffill]

For some reason I thought you were linking the Australian bill
Even after clicking through it and reading it I thought it was an Australian government site
I'm pretty stupid hey

 

[finlaypatrickduffill]

Jesus Christ
I keep reading through things I've said and I divulge necessary revisions each time. This is all I can tell has gone awry at the moment, but I'm going to come back to this sentence tomorrow and find an additional 20 things wrong with it. I've never been smart but I never expected such a sharp decline in my mental acuity

 

[Likeicare]

Your country is BANNING social media for anyone under the age of 16.

Theyre not though

 

[Likeicare]

Why are you so upset at the idea of under 16s not being on social media anyway

 

[lurk]

supposedly, some kid cant use his nvidia app because he's underage.

also, uk gov talks about banning vpns.