Mr Penguin"The measures, set to be introduced to the Parliament of Australia this year, will also require AI chatbots, online games and other digital services to take action to protect under-18s from addictive design features.
'This is not about giving government control. It's about giving people control. It's about putting choice back into the hands of Australians online,' said Prime Minister Anthony at a press conference on Tuesday. "
Umm anything related to age that is mandated by law ultimately results in GOVERNMENT mandated IDs or other privacy invasive BULLSHIT.
The people already have control to whatever degree they desire it because there are already non-crappy or at least less crappy options when it comes to social media like Mastodon.
When there is a free market and government hasn't undermined it the people get to vote with their two feet by utilizing whatever provider, service, or home-grown solution/service/product they so choose.
When you add regulation it undermines the free market by putting hurdles in the way to smaller entities and those who IDK may not trust any of the option available in the market by making it difficult to start-up a home-grown solution oneself, like run a Mastodon instance.
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