Australia's Planned Social Media Ban to Include PSN
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Australia's current Labor government, led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese,
plans to impose strict rules on teenagers' use of social media. With broad
support from the states and both major parties in agreement, the Online
Safety Act could pass before the end of the year, likely being introduced in
2025. It would restrict teenagers under 16 from accessing online platforms
like Facebook or X, but that's just for starters; Aussie teens will be cut
off from broader, ubiquitous platforms like YouTube and, perhaps most
devastating of all, the PlayStation Network (as well as Xbox Live).
由总理Anthony Albanese领导的澳洲现任工党政府计划对青少年使用社群媒体实施严格
的规定。在各州和主要政党的广泛支持下,《线上安全法案》可能会在今年年底前通过
,并可能在2025年推出。澳洲青少年将被切断与YouTube等广泛的平台联系,也许最具
破坏性的是PlayStation Network(以及 Xbox Live)
Now, all of this is obviously not great for Aussie teens who deserve
unfettered access to (if nothing else) the PlayStation Network, and this
Aussie scribe is not a fan. While the plan sounds draconian, international
readers should know that the government in question is largely inept and has
no idea how this proposal will be enforced.
Aussie outlet Press Start has been keeping tabs on the situation. More
information was posted ahead of the weekend, outlining the government's broad
definition of what a "social media service" is, as per the Online Safety Act:
The sole or primary purpose of the service is to enable online social
interaction between two or more end-users;
The service allows end users to link to or interact with some or all of the
other end users;
The service allows end users to post material on the service.
澳洲媒体Press Start一直密切关注事态发展。周末前发布了更多信息,概述了政府根据
《在线安全法》对“社交媒体服务”的广泛定义:
该服务的唯一或主要目的是实现两个或多个最终用户之间的线上社交互动;
该服务允许最终用户连结到部分或全部其他最终用户或与之互动;
该服务允许最终用户在该服务上发布资料。
Albanese's plan is to hold social media companies accountable, mandating that
they "take reasonable steps to block people under 16" from accessing them and
imposing flaccid fines on offenders. The "maximum fines are less than a
million dollars," which is pocket change for these massive corporations.
总理Anthony Albanese的计划是让社交媒体公司承担责任,要求它们“采取合理措施
阻止16岁以下的人”访问这些社交媒体,并对违规者处以“最高罚款不到一百万美元”
的罚款。
Of course, offending Aussie teens and their parents will face no punishment
for breaking or circumventing these rules, and so the ungovernable Australian
public will immediately flout them. Hilariously, the Labor government won't
or can't specify the technical method it will use to verify age. Burning all
of its goodwill amongst younger voters to appease their elders, we’d bet it
will cost them the next election.