New laws would give Vcat power to force social and AI platforms to identify anonymous users in move premier says will protect children
    • pHr34kY@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      9 days ago

      It’s not about children. They say it’s about children, but it has never been about children.

  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.spaceEnglish
    191·
    9 days ago

    Europe: the web will need age verification. This will not* be identity verification, and the police won’t* be able to look up the ID of any online post

    Australia: yeah nah, online anonymity is now illegal

  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zoneEnglish
    9·
    8 days ago

    Interesting that this is suddenly a massive priority for centrist parties amid a rising tide in fascism, as though their job is merely to institute draconian social controls for someone even worse to abuse.

    • No1@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      If only the ‘centrist’ parties would actually move to the centre 🙁

  • YeahToast@aussie.zoneEnglish
    51·
    8 days ago

    Well this is shit… think it’s time to write in to state MPs about the gross loss of privacy in the Trojan of “protecting children”

    • auzy1@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      7 days ago

      Facebook is no longer properly moderating their platform

      Let’s stop pretending like there isn’t constant incitement laws being broken, abusive behavior and constant racism.

      What were they expecting? Normalizing criminal behavior and giving meta a hall pass because they’re a large company?

      This isn’t a “gross loss of privacy”. That’s total BS. It’s a private service which is responsible for a shitload of criminal issues. I’m not even talking civil / freedom of speech. There are constant witchhunts and abuse happening on it. I’ve seen so many ACTUAL violent threats against people too.

  • AlteE@programming.devEnglish
    2·
    8 days ago

    So, if any social media asks you to give more of your personal data than just an email address and/or a phone number, then you don’t need this social media.

  • auzy1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    8 days ago

    Facebook is literally full of people inciting others to break laws breaking laws and Facebook refuses to remove anything. Even violent incitement I’m seeing

    Truckies in particular are abusing Indians and the amount of racism all over has gotten excessive. It’s not uncommon to even see subtle violent incitement

    It’s an unpopular opinion, but this is definitely a good thing.

    I’m tired of getting ignored by Facebook because some a-hole has told others to ignore a law and incited hate towards various groups of people.

    These are actual laws being broken and it would be good to have more powers to enforce them, because Facebook are profiting from abusive people.

    • eureka@aussie.zoneEnglish
      21·
      8 days ago

      Facebook is literally full of people inciting others to break laws breaking laws and Facebook refuses to remove anything. Even violent incitement I’m seeing

      Yes, stochastic terrorism is a real tactic for violence, and Facebook is one of the social media platforms enabling it.

      For what it’s worth, I managed to get rid of FB around 5-10 years ago (apart from recently creating a false identity sockpuppet recently due to That One Messenger Group you just can’t move off the site!) and it’s a small but sure weight off shoulders. That and Twitter are two of the worst mainstream sites, life is better without them at this point.