I've said this before, but if countries want to mandate compliance, they should be required to provide the mechanism for compliance.

The rollout of this has been pretty rough all things considered, much of it because the mechanism for compliance is flawed. Anthony Albanese's latest instgram posts are full of comments from teens saying things like, "how am i still on instagram if you banned us". The primary reason for this is most providers are leveraging age-estimation techniques, because the law specifically states:

    > 63DB Use of certain identification material and services

    >   (1) A provider of an age-restricted social media platform must not:

    >     (a) collect government-issued identification material

In an effort to prevent identity theft, the bill as originally written(1) was updated(2) to forbid platforms from collecting government IDs as a proof of age. Even if you support the intent of the bill, the design-by-committee approach made the requirements so easy to circumvent that it's effectively security theater.

(1) Original bill: https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/legislation/bi...

(2) Bill that passed after rewrites: https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/legislation/bi...

▲ daedrdev 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

So how does someone locked out wrongfully prove their age? Some people just look kinda young

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jimmydorry 3 days ago | parent [-]

The platforms all seem to have a fallback "support a ticket with your government ID, and we pinky promise to delete the ID after verifying you".

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daedrdev 3 days ago | parent [-]

But thats what this law does not allow according to the head of this chain, specifically government ids are not allowed to prove age, even if you delete them unless I read it wrong

	▲	jimmydorry 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Just telling you the options I was presented with, having to go through the process. I'm not sure what the alternative is for false positive identifaction as a minor.

▲ justatdotin 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

it is theater. they acknowledge as much.

not to exert absolute control, just enough to give the clear message: not for kids.