Australia bans social media for under 16s - eviltoast
  • ouch@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    But it IS different. If you compare to alcohol for example, age checks are performed in shops. No record of those is made or available to anyone. There is no centralized infrastructure related to age checks that could be abused in the future to track everyone who buys alhocol.

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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      27 days ago

      Yeah but if you think about to, from a law perspective that’s an implementation detail. Sure, from our perspective it’s a really important one, but from the perspective of a lawmaker it’s about whether it should be done, not how it’ll be done in execution (different branches of state, basically).

      • ouch@lemmy.world
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        27 days ago

        You are correct that from juridical point of view the difference does not seem great.

        Hopefully politicians listen to experts of different fields.