Companies approached by the eSafety commissioner this month about the requirement to prevent under 16s from holding social media accounts from 10 December have conducted a self-assessment that the commissioner will use to decide if they need to comply with the ban.
eSafety will not be formally declaring which service meets the criteria but companies that eSafety believes meet the criteria will be expected to comply.
If they were serious about protecting children, they would have a device level lock and force web pages and apps to positively affirm they are “safe” for minors
That would work, this clearly won’t. This is just censorship, you can’t sanitize the Internet, you can only carve out walled gardens
Don’t go giving them ideas. That way leads to Digital ID at birth, which should be avoided at all costs.
A rating system like the ESRB would actually be a really good idea for helping parents control what their kids get to see.
It shouldn’t result in any sort of ban or restriction beyond what the parents are able to enforce. The big-name services will have a rating, and it’s up to parents whether or not they’ll let their kids use unrated services.
You could go further than that… Mandate that all new devices and app stores must have a parental lockout available out of the box
Then when you get your kid a phone or computer, you just set up the permissions. This already exists to a large extent, this would just standardize it all to turn it into a usable system