Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban

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Saw a screenshot last night of someone who can't get into JIRA (or some other Atlassian product) until they either submit two forms of government ID or record a face scan. Seems like a great and effective initiative /s

Text of the screen:

"Your Atlassian account is not age verified.

Laws in your country require us to verify your age before accessing some products, including Jira and Confluence. This process takes 5-10 minutes. This can be done using two pieces of government ID or by performing a face scan."

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I think if we are going to ban people under 16 from social media, we should also ban people over 70 from social media.

At least as much mental and societal damage is done by elderly falling for bigoted, scammy, manipulative nonsense online than by teenagers having their self-esteem lowered.

As recent holiday gatherings have shown us, the young handle social media far better then the elderly.

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HN: social media is as bad as smoking

AUS: we agree, and like smoking, won't be letting our kids do it

NH: but freeze peach!

Nice! Soon enough they'll be forbidden to be outside during the day too, to avoid taking any risk crossing these "adults" thing probably.