They tried this in australia, now more kids than ever are on social media.

john_strinlai 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>now more kids than ever are on social media.

press x to doubt

i would need to see some data for that. no way the law had the effect of causing kids to sign up to social media who otherwise, before the law, didnt.

at worst, i could maybe see the law having a 0% effectiveness (i.e. the same number of kids using social media before/after the law). but i think even that is a big stretch.

	▲	mainmailman 9 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I could see a scenario where well meaning parents prevent kids from going online, and with the promise of a safer internet through ID laws allows their children to get online more. Total conjecture though, I would like to see data on that too.
	▲	littlestymaar 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yeah, there are arguments to be made about the benefits (less teenagers on social media) vs the drawbacks (having to hand your id card to some untrustworthy provider), or the fact that it makes people used to circumventing the law, or about the law addressing the wrong issue (so called “social media” being actively harmful by design in ways that ought to be banned) but claiming that the law increases social media consumption is ridiculous.

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retired 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The problem in Australia is that influencers and musicians are still allowed on social media regardless of age, as they have professionally managed accounts. So the result is that poor children in Australia don't have access to social media and that rich kids just hire an agency to represent them.

The Australian government should fix that.

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greggoB 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Source?

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miroljub 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Liberal progressive democrat?

	▲	greggoB 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Are you stating that as your source, or asking if that's my political affiliation?
	▲	mainmailman 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		What?