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Tech companies put on notice as Australia passes world-first social media ban for under-16s | CNN (www.cnn.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

That's just the reality of doing business on the Internet. This is by far the best way of doing it right now, not that this information appears to have made it down under so far.

While Australia's new legislation is ham-fisted and poorly thought out, the intent isn't wrong and there's broad consensus for it (77% approval in Australia). We need to do something about the uncontrolled exploitation, manipulation and endangerment of minors by social media services. Corporations are clearly not interested in protecting them and parents are obviously incapable of it as well (although I could have told you the same thing 20 years ago). That's precisely the kind of issue where the government is supposed to step in with regulation of some sort.