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Australia’s under-16 social media restrictions has led to little to no reductions in social media use (bmjgroup.com)
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[–] Funwayguy@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But they did such a great job of feeding the world's most problematic corporations government IDs and photo identification of minors and storing it in databases ripe for hackers.

Brought to you by the government whose national health network failed its security audit last year, and had 13 million records breached through a 3rd party the year before that.

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 1 points 1 day ago

"Protecting the kids" was never the goal.

You're correct in saying that their primary goal has seen resounding success.