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		wqaatwt on Nov 29, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Australian Parliament bans social media for under-... Only for now. After requiring an ID to sign up is normalized governments will inevitably try to eliminate any anonymity to “protect children”/catch criminals/censorship/etc.

XorNot on Nov 29, 2024 [–]

Case in point: COVID tracing was immediately ruined by the contact database being used by police for surveillance.

As a nation we have utterly terrible organizational firewalls for the public interest.

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