Australia's Social Media Ban for People Under 16 Takes Effect

If all the kids start pretending to be grownups, they end up escaping all the protections put in place to protect kids in the first place.

In football we call this an own goal

https://archive.ph/Ba2JR

How does a country effectively enforce this? Below is how they propose doing this. If you don't have any form of verification of your actual age, it's seems like they are just going on what the user says ( self reports). How can a company be found liable if a used lies about their age?

>the days leading to the ban, some teenagers said that they were prompted to verify their ages using a facial analysis feature, but that it gave inaccurate estimates. The law also states that companies cannot ask users to provide government-issued identification as the only way to prove their age because of privacy concerns.

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46209372

this is an egregious violation of their civil rights.

the law of unintended consequences looms large.