Don't be silly, this is clearly helpful. Once this is implemented properly, all children will be safe. Who needs good accommodation? Functioning healthcare system? Good schools? This bill will even solve child poverty.

I've seen this enough times to know that nothing good will happen from this. It's just another expansion of the surveillance state.

Kyle’s mom is a bitch.

This is what it is. The people implementing these laws don’t care about children, they want to document even more sites everyone goes to by forcing registration. This isn’t new, it has slowly been encroaching on the Internet for about 15 years. Corporations started before governments did, by forcing registration on social media websites using IDs and real names.

Nanny State bullshit is not in the interest of the people.

Anyone hiding behind children, the flag, or the cross as reason to justify a loss of freedom to corporations or the state shouldn’t be trusted.

This here is 100% the problem with the UK approach. I don't mind age restrictions, but if you can't provide means to enforce those restrictions without endangering privacy, you're simply endangering privacy - and it's probably only going to get worse. But this certainly isn't about children, because there's probably a thousand things that are more impactful to children.

As for Australia, it's a sloppy law, but there's no deeper issue there as far as I can see. It includes too many services, so children will just learn to circumvent the restrictions if they want to. They should really have set standards for social media services at the threat of banning the services, but why bother when you can just take the easy route, sloppy and flawed as it might be?

Yeah, "won't someone please think of the children" is usually the wedge used to foist surveillance and control onto the population.

Let's be real, this is not gonna stop kids discovering porn. They will use a VPN or find a way around it. Adults will be forced to jump through hoops or have their media consumption monitored and limited in the name of "child safety."

I mean come on, banning YouTube for 1-15 year olds, that's absurd.

Ms. Rachel is apparently "woke." 

Everything now is either "woke" or "fascism", it's so tiresome.

Or both.

With the end result that neither side likes her.