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Going to say Nope there....I know a lot of kids using discord, they do not have age checks in Australia.

Not sure who you have spoken to, but I don't know one single parent who wanted this. In fact most of them have said they will assist their kids to bypass it.

Well I should have worded it "A big reason the say they are banning it is Cyberbullying" , I don't believe that at all, but you are 100% correct, they hate big tech as it always beats our corrupt, biased and inept traditional media.

How long will it take them to ban communications ?

A big reason they are pushing this is Cyberbullying....yet a recent death in the news this week, the kid was literally bullied/sextorted via SMS....not social media.

Without banning SMS and possibly calls as well, it debunks this argument

The criticism is not that it wont be watertight, its that it will be ineffective in achieving what they say the reasoning is.

1. Kids are already moving to platforms that are not included in the ban, groups of friends will choose their own apps to make their group home, including Russian and Chinese apps ( already happening now)

2. Some kids have found ways around the included platforms...not surprising

3. One of the reasons they are spruiking is to stop Cyberbullying. Its ironic then that a big problem in schools across the country is physical bullying in the school grounds, with the educational authorities doing nothing about it. I know this one to be fact and have multiple instances that I personally know of where it happens and no action is taken. Our Government doesnt want to know about this at all

4. The platforms that have been banned are mostly "Big Tech" something that our Government hates with a passion, while many others go untouched. Discord is not included nor Telegram (how are these not social media, they literally allow people to socialise). I feel this is more of a weakening jab at Big Tech by our government to "stick it to them"

5. Day 3 and its pretty ineffective so far. There are many under 16's still have accounts on the blocked socials, and within the Family circle the only one that has been banned is actually 17, having her Instagram blocked ??? so not an awesome start at all.

My thoughts on this is there is very few things that will stop a sufficiently motivated teenager. I Know this as I have these conversations alot with my kids. They will work around it or go to whatever is out of scope of the blocking.

The only thing the Australia Government is great at is political grandstanding, regardless of the party in power.

It actually was pixel art, hand ( or rather mouse) crafted by the artist using a real picture for reference. I remember reading an article way back when where they interviewed her about the artwork. Amazing artist who I think at the time worked for Electronic Arts, but was pretty prolific in the Amiga space back in the day.

There is in depth information on its workings, on the website itself, in the newsgroups and in the podcast. If the author of the article were to look it would remove any "magic" of its workings. The author apparently has an axe to grind, for whatever reason , having said that , it may be for a very good reason but for transparency sake this should be included in the article. Instead its just a weird ramble about what he thinks of other tools and that he thinks Spinrite is a "scam" without technically explaining why, boiling it down to essentially a technically worded opinion piece.

Im guessing the author of this has somewhat of an issue with Steve Gibson and GRC, and has obviously spent some time mulling over how to write a very wordy and seemingly in-depth bashing of the their Spinrite software. However if you like myself have seen it work, and actually take a previously unusable hard drive to a usable state to allow a successful recovery of data, or in recent times, take an SSD with poor performing read and write speeds to a significant improvement after running Spinrite on the drive, you will be able to skip much of the diatribe in this post and actually see that it more of a character assassination on GRC and Gibson himself. Is the software 100% guaranteed to work, nope and I probably wouldn't recommend it for critical enterprise data recovery if you have the budget to spend on commercial recovery services, but as a low price maintenance tool it works well for many. The Author of this posts seems pretty knowledgeable, and probably has alot of offer, which is why its a pity his ego and spiteful nature seeps into his writing.

That was a trip down memory lane. I loved the Amiga, I owned 3 of them at one stage, but ended up moving on after the collapse of Commodore. Still has a place in my nostalgic heart though

This is where I am headed this year too, in the bid to save money Ive got an agreement with the kids...1 video subscriber service only at a time, between Disney+, Netflix and Paramount+. We watch what we want to on one, then cancel and switch. Hoping I can stick to it to save some dollars. Netflix is just ridiculously expensive now

Looks like he is getting out before the Sh!t hits the fan. As soon as they begin stopping password sharing im out and know many others that will follow. Its surprising the amount of people are only hanging onto it because their family share passwords with them and they feel guilty if they cancel....that will all go away if they stop it , and so will many subscribers

Well i did not see it as shallow, rather more of a succinct question.... but we all have different perspectives and views i guess.

I do see your point on this, though not sure if you can use that differentiation between human inspiration and what a computer is doing, we take a mental image and interpretation could be seen as metadata. Just because the mechanics are different doesn't mean its not similar in process. I guess you could say the emotion is not there, but is that enough to differentiate ? Still a good point though , adds more questions to the mix

That is a very good point actually, and one that I am sure will be tested in court...as I said it will be interesting to see where it leads