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Online Gaming Platforms And YouTube Will Also Seemingly Be Banned For Aussies Under 16
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This will never work. YouTube is a part of education now.
this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2024
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This kills the crab.
Of course one could also make the effort and instead force these platforms to provide actually useful parental supervision,guidance and parental information. But a blanked bann of course is far easier and much more catchy.
So the 14 year old that moved overseas/away can no longer legally play a game free for 6year and above in a private lobby. Neither can a 12 year old play with his divorced dad living out of state,even when they play a coop without any interaction with third parties.
All educational resources on YouTube? No longer available. Renowned youth programs from outside Australia? No longer available.
Even parents who let their kids use responsible to make sure they slowly adapt to social media are now criminalised. Getting your 13 year old a Facebook accounts have full control of so it can be member in two closed groups (local clubs) and chat with relatives? Nope,not possible.
Technically even using WhatsApp or Matrix can fall under this ban,btw.
Because it's wording is so bad.
- The sole or primary purpose of the service is to enable online social interaction between two or more end users;
- The service allows end users to link to, or interact with, some or all of the other end users;
The first two rules basically just mean no one can interact. A version of YouTube could exist within these rules.
- The service allows end users to post material on the service.
So that's basically the Internet. You can't visit Rotten Tomatoes for film reviews. Maybe you only show the critics score. But aren't they also end users? How about a newspaper? Newspaper has an opinion section. How many opinion writers can you have?
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Back to LAN parties? Because those were pretty fun to be honest...
In a city, maybe, though some Australians live on pretty remote farms. Going to be hard to set up a LAN with your buddies down the street.
kagis for discussion
https://flemmingbojensen.com/2007/08/07/the-australian-outback/
Stations (Australian for a ranch/farm) in the Outback are absolutely huge and the nearest neighbor is usually hundreds of kilometers away. People stay in touch through satellite phones, internet, cb radio and kids get their education long distance through the brilliant School of the Air.
Even this should be pretty easy — just connect directly (easy on IPv6) or through whatever tunnel you need depending on the game. Tailscale comes to mind, but you could do L2 tunneling with OpenVPN if you need to simulate an actual LAN.
I don’t understand why you’d need a central server at all.
And there were always fun SMB shares to look through 😅
sed 's/fun/disgusting/'
And social.
And really, they've never been easier, with the advent of gaming laptops and the Steam Deck and etc. - no more having to lug a desktop PC, mouse, keyboard, CRT monitor, and a box of cables and find room in your friend's garage to set it up.
Online gaming and related entertainment (e.g. streaming) is a breeding ground for red pill ideology. It’s an epidemic. All this rizz, sigma, whatever stuff is toxic red pill, value-based ideology bleeding to the younger generations’ culture.
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are you under 16
no
ok cool here's a youtube short when an AI voice tells you an AI-written story over vaguely related stock footage
The planet is fucking melting and elected leaders are writing laws on herding cats
I've been using the internet for longer than I've been an adult.
I still sometimes add +10 years to date of birth fields out of habit.
Might as well have issued a mandate to nom a spoonful of sand daily.
easy to just always set your birthdate as jan 1900 or 1950
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Does this mean a rise in single player and couch-coop games? 🤩
Might I add: they also are finished day one with no massive 70gb patches to fix a slew of problems.
ksp 2 cyberpunk starfield
single player corporate games are still corporate games, removing the multiplayer aspect doesn't remove the shittiness entirely
... Yeah, about that.
The vast majority of the industry kind of... forgot... how to do that.
Also basically every big name single player game requires an online account to work.
I'd would not expect either of those things to change.
Maybe Australian kids can learn how to emulate retro games?
Omg stop teasing
watch this space, australia is the testing ground for new services overseas. If this rolls out effectively in Australia, you can expect it in your own country soon.
Amazing news, honestly. First ray of hope for the future of humanity I’ve seen for as long as I can remember. Ideologically, things have been spiraling out of control with the amount right wing and authoritarian misinformation.
Not amazing news if it means rolling out digital ID. say goodbye to anonymity.
Anonymity on social media is how we got here. You can have anonymity elsewhere on the web. Wanna post on instagram comments? You shouldn’t be anonymous.
So how exactly would you decide which platforms are allowed to be anonymous then?
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So a government issued id linked to whatever your watching is going to fix this problem?
Because that's the only way to implement this
Yes, probably. We’d get rid of the 90% of content that’s just Chinese and Russian trolls, for starters. It’ll also lower the temperature of discussions.
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