[herunan]

This is just cop out legislation. I wanna see laws targeting addictive design systems and harmful content. Social media is only part of the problem.

There’s so much that falls out of the social media definition. And regardless, kids are not stupid… VPNs, proxies, etc are easy to circumvent with.

[soperj]

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of good.

Who cares if many can get around it, if the majority can't or won't, then it kills the network effects.

[Ritewut]

I don't think this is good though. It's a police state masquerading as "SAVE THE CHILDREN!"

[bloppe]

The Australian law, as written, is not good. It names 10 specific platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc) that must comply with the law. That means any social network that is not explicitly named can still happily serve children.

[amelius]

Step 1 should be to kill the ad based monetization model.

[Alex2037]

>I wanna see laws targeting addictive design systems and harmful content.

then you're going to see president Hegseth using those laws to ban video games and pornography.