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https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/11/24/this-social-media-ban-for-teens-infantilises-us-all/
In every single instance, restricting children’s access to the online world paves the way for greater restrictions on adults. Already there is concern that Australia’s restrictions will compel everyone who uses social media to prove their identity in order to verify their age. One group warns that the proposed law ‘represents a significant expansion of digital identity verification in social media, building on existing biometric-age estimation and document-based verification technologies’. Registration jettisons the anonymity which has, sadly, proved necessary for people to be able to post truths online, such as ‘women are adult females’, without losing their livelihoods. Attempts to control access to social media for children will inevitably end up restricting the free speech of all Australian citizens.
In every single instance, restricting children’s access to the online world paves the way for greater restrictions on adults. Already there is concern that Australia’s restrictions will compel everyone who uses social media to prove their identity in order to verify their age. One group warns that the proposed law ‘represents a significant expansion of digital identity verification in social media, building on existing biometric-age estimation and document-based verification technologies’. Registration jettisons the anonymity which has, sadly, proved necessary for people to be able to post truths online, such as ‘women are adult females’, without losing their livelihoods. Attempts to control access to social media for children will inevitably end up restricting the free speech of all Australian citizens.