Most young people I imagine know how a VPN works, or will figure out how to use one. At least I did when I was younger (23 now). Then they can sign up on the US version of the social media network.
Therefore the social media bill rendered useless.
Btw this is the best and easiest way I know of to stand up your own vpn. No way are social media blocking all Amazon/google/azure IPs
It’s effective against the great firewall of China.
It’s also worrying I’m having to recommend a tool designed primarily to circumvent controls of a communist dictatorship, for use in my own country.
@Gabi
Mate I never thought I would need this in Australia, look what we have become
Or social media companies can just re-classify themselves as ‘gaming’ platforms and avoid all of this 
@Blayne
They are actually ‘blocked’ on a dns level so going to your network settings and setting dns to 1.1.1.1 or whatever provider you choose will fix that issue
Barrett said:
@Blayne
They are actually ‘blocked’ on a dns level so going to your network settings and setting dns to 1.1.1.1 or whatever provider you choose will fix that issue
Thanks for the tip
Barrett said:
@Blayne
They are actually ‘blocked’ on a dns level so going to your network settings and setting dns to 1.1.1.1 or whatever provider you choose will fix that issue
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@Blayne
usenet and debrid is what you need.
Brier said:
@Blayne
usenet and debrid is what you need.
I find just running Nord gets me 99% of what I want… And if that doesn’t work via my laptop/tv, I cast from my phone.
@Blayne
Is that why I get “this song is not available in your country” in iTunes?
@Gabi
Yeah F this shit. Things like this feels like exactly the sort of thing everyone criticises the Chinese CCCP for as well. They do exactly, Governments IDs for social media and limiting the amount of time kids are allowed to play video games
For 1. I’ve spent enough time trying to block out social media sites from being able to track or having your real name. Let’s be real, it’s a genuine personal and cyber security risk. Even just a real name or email and people can find out all kinds of information about you. Address, phone number. There are black databases of hacked and leaked passwords, you can buy passwords associated with other people’s emails etc.
- Wtf why is the government trying to control how we parent our own kids. What if this just makes next gen adults weak and underprepared for the manipulative shit show that is the internet. AND. Isn’t this just going to drive kids to smaller more shady foreign Social sites with no AU business presence and thus not under the jurisdiction of the AU fed gov anyway??
/rant
@Windsor
Regarding your second question (labelled 1), probably because the youth crime stats indicate their are a whole lot of parents that are doing jack-all to successfully control their kids.
Clay said:
@Windsor
Regarding your second question (labelled 1), probably because the youth crime stats indicate their are a whole lot of parents that are doing jack-all to successfully control their kids.
Yeah, unfortunately your probably right
Clay said:
@Windsor
Regarding your second question (labelled 1), probably because the youth crime stats indicate their are a whole lot of parents that are doing jack-all to successfully control their kids.
Imagine the youth crime when they all get unplugged.
Clay said:
@Windsor
Regarding your second question (labelled 1), probably because the youth crime stats indicate their are a whole lot of parents that are doing jack-all to successfully control their kids.
If you’re not keeping up, the government in consultation with touchy feely types have spent decade after decade eroding parents abilities to “parent” their children and deciding what “appropriate” interaction looks like with zero consideration of circumstances, just “the rights of children”.
You can’t only blame the parents, these days there is no lack of justification for poor behaviour of children but no alternatives.
The government will surely ban your kids from using social media, but if they go steal a car, burn someones house down or destroy property, they’ll let them off basically scott free then let society blame the parents.
Punishment works, Punishment is also harshly judged these days and the proof of that is everywhere… but don’t worry, you can rest safe knowing your government is protecting kids from social media while also ignoring every single dumb ass mistake their bored brains will do without social media to keep them occupied.
Clay said:
@Windsor
Regarding your second question (labelled 1), probably because the youth crime stats indicate their are a whole lot of parents that are doing jack-all to successfully control their kids.
First they say you can’t smack your kids. Then tell you you should be friends with them. They tell your kids they don’t have to listen if your being mean. Then complain kid are disrespectful and don’t listen to authority so we need more laws to control our daily lives while letting kids off for breaking the law. Then say we need more laws to stop the people that don’t care about breaking them in the first place. While everyone else loses there rights and freedoms. Its actually a very smart plan to slowly take control for our safety of course.
@Windsor
Ok so we have a fairly new tech that is showing to have negative impacts to people and the most vulnerable are the youth…I agree we should let parents do things their own way but on that note how many kids do you see out buying their kids alcohol weed and cigarettes even with the laws we have strictly limiting and prohibiting it. Not all people who become parents are responsible and I for one think social media is one of those newer things that should be controlled for vulnerable people. Studies show kids spend hours per day on social media and it is a very different culture nowadays to say 15 years ago when Facebook and MySpace were the go to.
@Windsor
Facebook at least let you fully lockdown your profile to people you aren’t friends with. Instagram & Tiktok allow you to set your profile to private too. Just knowing your name won’t get you far if you use the privacy tools the sites provide.
@Jade
Yes it can, It’s possible to dig up all kinds of personal information if you know how to use google well enough with only a name. You can often find an email, then you can type the email into online black leaked password databases. And gain access to online accounts. If you manage to buy an email password for eg, you can start resetting passwords for all kinds of accounts including facebook. People have lost their share portfolios just through hacked email.
My stuffs as locked down as possible and we own our own email server,. This os more a warning to everyone else
Remember when that Blizzard buy published his full name to show how safe it is, when they where pushing real names on battle.net. And the next day the community published his home address and phone number?
@Windsor
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