In order for social media sites to actually be able to enforce this law it’s the only thing that would work. They might feel pressured to make deals with the internet service providers to actually implement this kind of ID check for internet connections.
If they don’t, it’s only a matter of time until some country does pass such a law.
This ID is already provided with a credit card number TBH and any other info needed to setup a ISP or cellphone plan, but there are ways around that.
One is purchasing a month to month phone plan with cash for example. Or finding open wifi networks and routing all traffic through a personal VPN or a commercial VPN.
And the social media sites, in the interest of complying with the law, might make deals with the internet service providers to actually put an ID check on every internet connection. This isn’t impossible.
Even if they don’t, once legislators realize their law didn’t fix the problem they can always pass new legislations.
They could require an ID to connect to the internet.
That’s not what’s been proposed.
In order for social media sites to actually be able to enforce this law it’s the only thing that would work. They might feel pressured to make deals with the internet service providers to actually implement this kind of ID check for internet connections.
If they don’t, it’s only a matter of time until some country does pass such a law.
Technically they already do, if you you’re the account holder
This ID is already provided with a credit card number TBH and any other info needed to setup a ISP or cellphone plan, but there are ways around that.
One is purchasing a month to month phone plan with cash for example. Or finding open wifi networks and routing all traffic through a personal VPN or a commercial VPN.
They could require you to show an ID to purchase a phone.
Open wifi networks certainly wouldn’t provide an ID to connect, which would mean they couldn’t be used to access social media.
This is not an unsolvable problem. The question is if Australia is willing to piss everyone off to actually do it.
That’s not how the law is written, onus is on social media sites, they haven’t banned under 16s from the internet, just from social media.
And the social media sites, in the interest of complying with the law, might make deals with the internet service providers to actually put an ID check on every internet connection. This isn’t impossible.
Even if they don’t, once legislators realize their law didn’t fix the problem they can always pass new legislations.
My point is that this isn’t impossible.
Service providers can’t verify individual users, its arguably harder for them to do that than it is for social media site operators
They could, we’d just need to hand over even more of our privacy and rights.
Which was always the plan.