Australia is banning social media for kids under 16.
The world-first law aims to reduce the risks children face online, but critics fear it may not work.
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I swear every headline about Australia is something like:
"Australia bans the only things you found fun growing up"
Guns? That’s the other thing we’re famous for.
Video game censorship comes to mind, can't say guns are an American's favorite thing growing up...
There’s not really any video game ban legislated in Australia.
You might be thinking of an our stupid classification board who occasionally make weird, inconsistent decisions resulting games being prohibited for sale to certain markets or altogether.
For a long time this was because there was no R 18+ classification, forcing some games to be refused classification. This has been addressed, but the Australian Classification Board aren’t always applying it correctly so there’s reform needed of the ACB to fix this outright (it seems to be gradually improving maybe?)
Interesting, maybe I'm remembering older info then. I seem to remember there being some games that had an "Australian" version that removed a lot of the gore/violence.
Yeah there’s been censored versions released to get around ACB being dickheads. It’s silly.
Hotline Miami 2.
Is a great example of what I’m talking about. This can be given an R18+ rating, ACB appear to be dragging feet on classification because they’re idiot bureaucrats who think it’s their job to apply their own moral standards.