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Australia bans social media for under 16s (www.theverge.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (16 children)

Probably going to get downvoted for this, but this just makes kids look for VPN's and other ways to skirt this restriction. It may make VPN's less useful for the rest of us as a result when certain services are forced to comply with the law, breaking those services for those of us using VPN's. It sounds like a great idea but I don't know that the implementation will make a noticeable or effective difference.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Most kids are not going to pay a subscription for a VPN, I don't think that would be as big of an issue as you think.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well unless they go for free vpns and get data mined to the moon and back... Which is a far worse outcome imo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There are free vpn services? How do they data mine you?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well they have to host the servers and pay for them somehow... So they take all of your traffic going through their servers and sell it. They know when you go to any website, at what time, and how long you were there... That's why anyone recommending a VPN strongly recommends vpns that do not keep logs of what their clients do when connected to their servers. Even some paid vpns double dip and keep logs and sell them as well as charging for access.

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