Australia

Removing the benefits that social media brings will not achieve the government’s objective of improving young people’s lives, and ignores the fact that the harms extend beyond children and young people to marginalized people and groups. The best way to protect children and young people online is by protecting all users with stronger data protection laws and not personalizing feeds based on profiling.

Yes, 100%. I'm glad to see somebody with clout saying this. It's been bizarre to see the government acknowledge something as harmful and malicious, and then only keep kids away from it instead of trying to stop it from being harmful and malicious.

No profiling by default sounds pretty good. I'd also throw in "feed algorithms must be public"

Hows the ban gonna work? Im fully expecting this is simply a new way to sneak past a law forcing everyone to provide government id without people questioning it.

Also the vpn companies must be getting very excited at the new bussiness opportunities. Btw mullvad ia the only vpn that actually gives u any security/privacy gains the rest are actually worse privacy wise.

Pssssssh! Yeah, but children don't give political donations.

That's much harder which is why they aren't doing it.

Just a thought, someone should make a regulated platform for tweens. They are the largest consumer demographic, so there’s strong advertising potential that could drive the platform.

If anyone didn't this post yesterday, public submissions close *today* for the rushed senate committee review of this proposed legislation: https://aussie.zone/post/15477521