With the ban going into effect, I thought it might be helpful to allow people to share their experiences about the Australian teen social media ban and how it has affected them.
Note: For the Aussie Zone lemmy requirements, see here. Please use that thread for an Aussie Zone specific discussions or questions.
Good luck, everyone!
This is a stupid law that won’t work of course. Only the most delusional of parents with control issues support this.
However. This also might be unintentionally the most important antitrust legislation in a generation. For that, I am grateful.
Please explain the antitrust part?
Kids under 16 are likely to explore alternatives and get vendor-locked to them instead of Meta et Al. products.
Not that vendor lock in is good but maybe this will create more awareness that the web is bigger than a handful of websites.
My 90’s heart wishes for a return to the old web, where there was much more decentralisation