Age verification CANNOT work. It will NEVER work because humans do not look different one day before and after their 16th birthday.👀 Surely this is obvious? The Under 16 social media bill is a trap. Regardless of what the legislation says, governments know platforms will have to enact Digital... ID for customers locked out of their accounts. Imagine a if a bar was fined for serving alcohol to children - but wasn't allowed to prove the age of a customer to a legal satisfaction. That's what's happening. It is an excuse - nothing more - to rip money out of social media companies for 'non-compliance' while forcing a shroud of digital surveillance over citizens. Alexander Hatzikalimnios joins Spectator TV Australiashow more

If they stop me accessing my accounts and payments to the bank and utilities I’ll sue the government, they have no right whatsoever to control me.

It is not about protecting young people, it's about controlling the knowledge the people can have.

I don’t believe the social media ban will work but I also don’t believe in the conspiracy theories that people on in this platform are trying to push. You’re trying to push the same conspiracy theories as digital ID which is not a surveillance tool. It’s actually quite helpful if you bothered to read the information and understand how it works but you keep pushing all your conspiracy theories and bullshit and lies

A burka is ageless.

Consider... Albanese et al are challenging the ingenuity of Musk et al. Hmmm... wonder where a man can get a bet down on the outcome?

its the next step in the digital prison being installed around us while we sleepwalk right into it

I’m about to dump the internet and hit the gym I’m not doing this shit

Why have these right wing nut jobs decided that yankee billionaires that own social media companies are going to be our overlords If Australia people have to obey Australia laws , if they face prosecution and consequences for not doing so, why not yankee billionaires?

Ten year old girls in makeup can look 25. 25 year old men can look 14. This isn’t about protecting children.

Meanwhile on the 27th...

4 page lift out in the Herald Sun today about protecting the kids from social media FFS 🤦

Pedos also don`t like this regulation.

You do understand age verification doesn't just look at your face it looks at your habits online etc as well

They are using protecting children to deploy age verification so that they can censor adults and prevent anonymous usage of the internet. This much is obvious and it has been deployed in several countries using this same excuse at the same time.

SM companies aren’t being forced to use facial recognition to prove age. Completely up to SM HOW they determine age of user. What ID did you provide for a Blue Tick on X?

Cunt Labor noticed the way witchcraft laws like "hate speech," literally utterances are causally a criminal harm just like witches' spells, gained support from scumbags that they decided to just declare themselves magical rulers who know magical ways to charge people with crimes.

You're right, when I was kid, me and my mates did dodgy stuff so we could buy booze, ciggies, and bet on the horses and even drive cars. And because we got away with that, there should be no laws against those things. You fucking idiot.

Imagine trying to equate free speech to buying booze, smoking, and betting. A better comparison would be 'some kids swear when they're out in public therefore no children should be allowed outside'.

Imagine equating free speech to adults and bullies having anonymous access to children online. Children have free speech. Please explain to me what child will lose their free speech?

An excuse for control. Just look at China.

I showed my govt issued licence to get my phone in the first place. 🤔

Socialism dost like freedoms of any kind it like dictatorship control and the people compliance to the socialists ways,the only freedoms the man/woman of socialism care about is theirs & family members freedoms, but never any body else’s, so live like North Korea people do or not

Yes, but porn sites are ok, says it all.

Will you please STFU!!!

Maybe parents could do what there meant to be doing, parenting. There's plenty of things in place and have been for a very long time for parents to use. But no, everybody else has to raise their kids again

Are you worried it will read you as older than you are or that it might think you’re under 16. Na that would be silly it will probably be older.

Good work Alexandra.

We’re living in an Orwellian Police State

My 17 yr old autistic daughter had to verify her age with photo on Roblox it verified her age between 13-15 all she has with photo on card is student id that didn't scan plus In profile charged her DOB from 2008 to 2012 how is it allowed to change the DOB without your consent

Parents could maybe open accounts now for their kids to use later so they don’t have to give up ID to join later..?

Good friend of ours is in her early 30s, she’s a Mum of 2, she regularly gets asked for ID in pubs.

🤣🤣🤣Literally the dumbest take I've seen in this whole age ban commentary. FFS

Its internet control and suppression by the backdoor- just get a vpn until the NWO is demolished

It's all here #socialmediaban @AussieOverLawd

I hope all of the platforms just geoblock the entirety of Australia...

Absolutely, all about revenue raising. Won't be much good though when Trump takes it all off them with his new monetary plan.

This is not a conspiracy theory….