The exact thing happened over here in Malaysia as they copied Australia verbatim. I posted about this a few times, it has nothing to do with "protecting children" as they call it. The real agenda is to KYC every social media user, and knowing their reputation of what these companies do with our personal data and the history of data breaches involving them, what could possibly go wrong.
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I missed that, I admit, though then again, I don't think that's accidental. They're careful about what they mediaticize, aren't they? It's the first (and a very dangerous) step towards digital ID enforcement and complete digital control.
When did our safety and protection fall out of our own jurisdiction?
In no way this is accidental. It started with the social media licensing requirements, DNS redirect and the online safety bill that passed last year and the "ban" being the latest move recently. I don't think you missed it as you voted on the post.
Governments around the world are also now pushing their digital ID apps to be pre-installed on every new phone together with the long list of uninstallable bloatware. Here it has already been integrated into practically every government service (i.e. phasing out physical ID and mandating the use of the digital ID for authentication of government and telco apps).
Ah yes. I must've just forgotten then, thank you for reminding me. I thought you meant a more recent post I'd missed, as I didn't remember seeing one from you lately.
I expect eventually, physical IDs will disappear entirely and the choice will be made simple - as long as you want to continue existing and benefitting from society, you must bend the knee.