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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,nz.general,aus.computers
Subject: Re: Banning Social Media For Under-16s
Date: Thu, 15 May 2025 20:40:50 -0400 (EDT)
Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
>Rubbish, it'll be easy for kids to fake the ID requirement. That
>idiotic law effectively just enforced a compulsory course on
>identity fraud for under 16s. While of coure ensuring the
>government can track every honest adult social media user who does
>verify using their real ID.

My friend in 7th grade got his father's Playboy Club key and we
even figured out how to get there on the city bus, but we didn't
actually have the guts to try it.

Technology changes but kids never do.
--scott

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