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Children social media bans are just an excuse to deanonymize the internet so politicians can send the police after their critics.

https://anzsog.edu.au/research-insights-and-resources/resear...

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The ban is supported by a large majority of Australia according to polling, so this is democracy working as intended.

Possibly because they've been misled into thinking it will be effective.

The OP isn't necessarily wrong though: the effect of the law is basically not well understood, hence the popularity.

It's a case of people not understanding what age verification means (you are collecting everyone's ID to do it) and/or nor caring because "they don't use that Internet".

There's going to be a lot whinging once a bunch of boomers and boomer-millennials see an age check prompt on Facebook.

Thank you.

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