SYDNEY, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Social media companies have collectively deactivated nearly five million accounts belonging to Australian teenagers just a month after a world-first ban on under‑16s took effect, the country’s internet regulator said, a sign the measure has had a swift and sweeping impact.
Isn’t Australia the totalitarian state where you must verify your identity to use social media? If so, then just saying you’re older won’t work. If not, then the law is completely pointless.
Not only Id. like many new Id verification systems, that have the ALT option of taking a selfie… Which is easily bypassed by any AI image, or searching for “picture of a man” and taking a “”““selfie””" of that.
Or using a relative’s ID. As of now they don’t care to check if the ID or Picture matches the social media profile, I guess they (social media platforms) only care about complying even if the implementation is flawy