2025-12-10 07:32:10

Australia just made history with what might be the strictest digital regulation yet.

The country's rolling out a nationwide ban blocking anyone under 16 from accessing major social platforms. We're talking TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, Threads, Twitch, and Kick—basically the entire digital hangout zone for teens.

Platforms are now facing real pressure to enforce age verification. No more checkbox lies about birth dates.

This isn't just a policy shift. It's a statement about how governments worldwide might start treating digital spaces. Some call it protection. Others? Digital censorship wrapped in safety language.

Either way, Gen Z down under just got the ultimate screen time limit—courtesy of parliament, not parents.

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SerumSqueezer

· 2025-12-13 07:15

This surgery in Australia is really ruthless, directly cutting off Generation Z from the internet... Is age verification really that effective? It still seems possible to bypass it.

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GoldDiggerDuck

· 2025-12-12 19:53

Australia's recent move is truly impressive—banning all social media for those under 16... If this were implemented globally, the Web3 community would go into an uproar. By the way, how will age verification be handled? Will KYC need to be upgraded too? The government is regulating so tightly; is the next step to ban VPNs... It feels like digital censorship is being carried out under the guise of "protection," which is quite suffocating. Generation Z is really unfortunate; back in our day, we didn't have these restrictions. If this policy spreads to our country, my secondary accounts will have to be shut down. But on the other hand, the technical difficulty of age verification... can platforms really implement it? Australia is leading the way, and surely other countries will follow, pushing internet freedom one step back. Naked power expansion, just dressed up in the guise of security.

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CryptoCross-TalkClub

· 2025-12-10 07:57

Laugh to death, Australia's wave of operations has directly changed the screen time of Generation Z to "parliamentary time", which is amazing Age verification is easy to say, but in fact, it depends on whether the platform dares to carry it hard, and it is estimated that there will be a thunderstorm This needs to be pushed globally, and the business model of social platforms has to be rewritten Other governments look at it and laugh, and if they dare to censor it, they have to wrap themselves in the cloak of "child protection", which is really ruthless Wait, if this policy is really implemented, TikTok will not be able to lay off employees in Australia? The beautiful country banned TikTok without success, but Australians really dared to do it To say that it sounds good is protection, and to say that it is ugly is to say that the government is harvesting the right to speak Our currency circle will always have an "age verification" to keep the leeks out of the door, so that no one will be cut

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notSatoshi1971

· 2025-12-10 07:55

Australia's hand is really ruthless, under the age of 16 directly bans all social software, what is this not protection? --- Age verification has been done, the checkbox set is outdated, and the government's operation is quite good --- To put it bluntly, the government has taken over the work of parents, and children's screen time now depends on the face of Congress --- Governments around the world are watching, will Australia's paved path become a template in the future? --- Censorship in the name of safety is always this set of rhetoric --- Gen Z: Our childhood socialization is ended by law, thank you Canberra --- Now, this wave of age verification technology is about to explode, and major platforms have to do it next to each other --- It can't be bothered, children have a lot of tricks, and the way to bypass age verification is faster than the policy is introduced

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TheMemefather

· 2025-12-10 07:54

This wave of operations in Australia is really amazing, directly cutting the online life of an entire generation across the board... Speaking of age verification, can this thing be reliable, I feel that there is still a way to break it The 16-year-old ban sounds like protection, but to put it bluntly, isn't it the government using a knife on the Internet... Anyway, Generation Z doesn't care, it's early When will this drama between the government and big technology be over, and the review will be censored, don't pretend to be a protector Australia has really become a testing ground for global digital control... Who will be next? Children don't have social platforms, it doesn't matter whether it works or not, the key is that once this opening opens... To put it bluntly, this policy is just trying to control public opinion, just finding an excuse to protect children Who will really cooperate with age verification, I don't understand it anyway Australia: I want to save teenagers Teenager: I just want to watch the video... It's a bit exaggerated, banning these platforms means that Generation Z can read? It's funny Isn't this the beginning of the expansion of government power... It's just a layer of "for your own good"

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NoStopLossNut

· 2025-12-10 07:50

Australia's wave of operations is really ruthless, directly driving Generation Z offline... But then again, who believes in age verification, just change your birthday and you're done

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