Landmark legislation sees the Australian government committed to the novel step of child protection by banning social media for under sixteens.
Landmark legislation sees the Australian government committed to the novel step of child protection by banning social media for under sixteens.
Why?
Because how would you do that on desktop? Or on a degoogled phone? Or if the download was via an apk from elsewhere?
Probably because the internet isn’t an app store
… I didn’t say it was.
The quote says that app stores should be responsible for verifying age, but social media is not limited to apps - they’re just one of multiple user interfaces for interacting with social networks. So that alone cannot solve the problem.
Sorry for the confusion
Because the app store isn’t the only way to install an app. It is trivially easy to side load apps and it’s well within the technologic skillset of the average 12 year old.
They can also just use a web browser.