Victoria announces new social media ‘demasking’ powers for accounts accused of vilification
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/19/victoria-proposes-social-media-account-identification-powers
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Taleya@aussie.zone · 21 pts · 34d
Have parents tried supervising their fucking kids?
pHr34kY@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 33d
It's not about children. They say it's about children, but it has never been about children.
auzy1@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 32d
Have you been on Facebook? A lot of adults need supervision at this point.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 18 pts · 34d
Europe: the web will need age verification. This will not* be identity verification, and the police won’t* be able to look up the ID of any online post
Australia: yeah nah, online anonymity is now illegal
makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 34d
To "protect children". Uhuh. Sure
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 9 pts · 33d
Interesting that this is suddenly a massive priority for centrist parties amid a rising tide in fascism, as though their job is merely to institute draconian social controls for someone even worse to abuse.
No1@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 33d
If only the 'centrist' parties would actually move to the centre 🙁
YeahToast@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 33d
Well this is shit.. think it's time to write in to state MPs about the gross loss of privacy in the Trojan of "protecting children"
auzy1@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 32d
Facebook is no longer properly moderating their platform
Let's stop pretending like there isn't constant incitement laws being broken, abusive behavior and constant racism.
What were they expecting? Normalizing criminal behavior and giving meta a hall pass because they're a large company?
This isn't a "gross loss of privacy". That's total BS. It's a private service which is responsible for a shitload of criminal issues. I'm not even talking civil / freedom of speech. There are constant witchhunts and abuse happening on it. I've seen so many ACTUAL violent threats against people too.
AlteE@programming.dev · 2 pts · 33d
So, if any social media asks you to give more of your personal data than just an email address and/or a phone number, then you don't need this social media in first place.
ryannathans@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 33d
A tribunal? Not even a court? Bruh
auzy1@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 33d
Facebook is literally full of people inciting others to break laws breaking laws and Facebook refuses to remove anything. Even violent incitement I'm seeing
Truckies in particular are abusing Indians and the amount of racism all over has gotten excessive. It's not uncommon to even see subtle violent incitement
It's an unpopular opinion, but this is definitely a good thing.
I'm tired of getting ignored by Facebook because some a-hole has told others to ignore a law and incited hate towards various groups of people.
These are actual laws being broken and it would be good to have more powers to enforce them, because Facebook are profiting from abusive people.
eureka@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 32d
Yes, stochastic terrorism is a real tactic for violence, and Facebook is one of the social media platforms enabling it.
For what it's worth, I managed to get rid of FB around 5-10 years ago (apart from recently creating a false identity sockpuppet recently due to That One Messenger Group you just can't move off the site!) and it's a small but sure weight off shoulders. That and Twitter are two of the worst mainstream sites, life is better without them at this point.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone · -3 pts · 32d
stop giving kids phones
educate about undue influence and propaganda wars