That’s not how the law works and it doesn’t empower parents to do anything. It just makes social media sites check for age and deny under 16s. It only applies to sites hosted by companies or people with a presence in Australia, and it refers to methods of age verification that don’t exist yet even though the law is now in force.
This law is a series of requirements on social media site operators and the definition of the fines they will receive if they don’t comply. It doesn however define the actual methods those operators must use, only who will define them (they are still yet to be defined). They scale of what constitutes a social media site is wild.
Empowering parents would be helping them understand methods for combating toxic social media use or supporting them in improving their internet and cyber safety literacy. Implementing a law and providing limited narrative on its function through traditional mainstream media is not empowering parents. Do you think many parents understand their liability for the Minecraft server their kids will inevitably set up from what’s been reported so far?
Circumventing this law is trivial. You wildly underestimate the ability for teenagers to get away with doing things they want.
That’s not how the law works and it doesn’t empower parents to do anything. It just makes social media sites check for age and deny under 16s. It only applies to sites hosted by companies or people with a presence in Australia, and it refers to methods of age verification that don’t exist yet even though the law is now in force.
WDYM that’s not how the law works? All laws are a statement of societal expectations.
Of course it does. Obviously, it’s much easier to tell your kids they’re not allowed to use facebook if most of their friends aren’t using facebook.
So you mean, the vast majority of platforms on which children congregate?
It sounds like you haven’t actually read it.
This law is a series of requirements on social media site operators and the definition of the fines they will receive if they don’t comply. It doesn however define the actual methods those operators must use, only who will define them (they are still yet to be defined). They scale of what constitutes a social media site is wild.
Empowering parents would be helping them understand methods for combating toxic social media use or supporting them in improving their internet and cyber safety literacy. Implementing a law and providing limited narrative on its function through traditional mainstream media is not empowering parents. Do you think many parents understand their liability for the Minecraft server their kids will inevitably set up from what’s been reported so far?
Circumventing this law is trivial. You wildly underestimate the ability for teenagers to get away with doing things they want.