This law is a series of requirements on social media site operators and the definition of the fines they will receive if they don’t comply. It doesn however define the actual methods those operators must use, only who will define them (they are still yet to be defined). They scale of what constitutes a social media site is wild.
Empowering parents would be helping them understand methods for combating toxic social media use or supporting them in improving their internet and cyber safety literacy. Implementing a law and providing limited narrative on its function through traditional mainstream media is not empowering parents. Do you think many parents understand their liability for the Minecraft server their kids will inevitably set up from what’s been reported so far?
Circumventing this law is trivial. You wildly underestimate the ability for teenagers to get away with doing things they want.
It sounds like you don’t know much about how Australia’s legal system works, or parenting for that matter.
Laws are always broad and vague by intention. Courts interpret the law, and regulators investigate contraventions.
Empowering parents would be helping them understand methods for combating toxic social media use or supporting them in improving their internet and cyber safety literacy.
You seem to be wildly overestimating the level of interest most parents have in such things. Social media has become such a problem precisely because parents generally have given up on this particular battleground.
It sounds like you haven’t actually read it.
This law is a series of requirements on social media site operators and the definition of the fines they will receive if they don’t comply. It doesn however define the actual methods those operators must use, only who will define them (they are still yet to be defined). They scale of what constitutes a social media site is wild.
Empowering parents would be helping them understand methods for combating toxic social media use or supporting them in improving their internet and cyber safety literacy. Implementing a law and providing limited narrative on its function through traditional mainstream media is not empowering parents. Do you think many parents understand their liability for the Minecraft server their kids will inevitably set up from what’s been reported so far?
Circumventing this law is trivial. You wildly underestimate the ability for teenagers to get away with doing things they want.
It sounds like you don’t know much about how Australia’s legal system works, or parenting for that matter.
Laws are always broad and vague by intention. Courts interpret the law, and regulators investigate contraventions.
You seem to be wildly overestimating the level of interest most parents have in such things. Social media has become such a problem precisely because parents generally have given up on this particular battleground.