misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 27 days agoAustralia bans social media for under 16swww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square122fedilinkarrow-up1155arrow-down11
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minus-squaregnuplusmatt@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·27 days agoI work tech in schools (in Australia) there are definitely tech savvy enough kids that will probably spool up their own fediverse instances
minus-squareDr. Moose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·27 days agoI work with tech security and once a corporate blog post I wrote got from 1,000 monthly views to 100k because kids were looking up proxy tool guides and it was for Roblox lmao This law is incredibly illiterate
minus-squareshortwavesurfer@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·27 days agoI know right. I used to be a kid who bypassed school firewalls and restrictions all the time. This is going to make no difference.
minus-squareLifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·27 days agoIt will likely make a big difference. Freedoms being taken away day by day and we shrug it off.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·27 days agoBy virtue of you actually knowing what a firewall is, and participating in the conversation, on this platform, you are ahead of 99 out of 100 people.
minus-squareshortwavesurfer@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·27 days agoTrue, but I was that one kid who showed all of my friends how to use a VPN to bypass all the restrictions as well, and then they taught their friends.
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I work tech in schools (in Australia) there are definitely tech savvy enough kids that will probably spool up their own fediverse instances
I work with tech security and once a corporate blog post I wrote got from 1,000 monthly views to 100k because kids were looking up proxy tool guides and it was for Roblox lmao
This law is incredibly illiterate
I know right. I used to be a kid who bypassed school firewalls and restrictions all the time. This is going to make no difference.
It will likely make a big difference. Freedoms being taken away day by day and we shrug it off.
By virtue of you actually knowing what a firewall is, and participating in the conversation, on this platform, you are ahead of 99 out of 100 people.
True, but I was that one kid who showed all of my friends how to use a VPN to bypass all the restrictions as well, and then they taught their friends.