Saving the Children - A Trojan Horse for Social Media and Internet Control on The Big Issue.

Saving the Children - A Trojan Horse for Social Media and Internet Control.

Two of the most significant changes ever made to the way Australians use the internet come into effect next month – but most people will have heard of only one of them.

less than three weeks after the social media ban comes into effect, search engines such as Google and Microsoft's Bing will be given up to six months to find out how old their users are before deciding what to show in search results. A group of codes, developed by the tech giants themselves but policed by the eSafety Commissioner, are trying to stop children from seeing pornography, high-impact violence, self-harm harm and suicidal content. It will hinder all Australians

So all of us will soon be forced to verify ourselves to do an internet search. This sounds akin to treating everybody seeking online information as a suspect. It is NOT about child safety.

Electronic Frontiers Australia, John Pane, told a government inquiry "An incremental measure of safety must not be purchased at the cost of the fundamental privacy, anonymity and freedom of expression for an entire generation," and the Australian chairman of online free speech group said "The proposed regulatory approach exchanges one set of risks – unsuitable content – for another, far greater, systemic risk: the potential mass collection of children's and adults' identity data, further enriching the data stores and financial positions of big tech and big data and increasing cyber risk on a very significant scale.

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