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Oh there’s no doubt it will be full of shit ideas, but at least if they are involved they can register their opposition to those shit ideas and ensure everything is reported correctly.

Geez you’d expect the Dems to jump on joining this so they can at least provide some oversight

Regardless they can probably sell some shit and cover their debts

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Gonna see a massive law enforcement mobilisation and round the clock media campaign to hunt down the killer in 3, 2 …

It can’t help to fix the issue now because it takes 20 years to build a functional plant IF you have the local skill and regulatory framework to design, build and operate them. It would take us 30 years because we have none of that. We can roll out gigawatts of solar, wind, batteries and hydro energy storage in significantly less time. These technologies require no new framework and the engineering is well understood.

Nuclear bombs are a significant step from nuclear power. The engineering of the equipment to refine the fuel alone is difficult and requires huge amounts of capital and manpower to develop, let alone that required for the bombs or the delivery systems. Australia doesn’t have the budget or the capability to build nuclear plants let alone nuclear weapons.

It’s not a solution for addressing the climate crisis, any attempt to market it as such is disingenuous. It could have been but it’s 20 years too late.

It certainly can be a part of a long term energy plan and even a long term military plan, but it’s not going to be providing energy in 10 years. The only things that are going to achieve that are wind and solar with energy storage.

Also Ukraine has had nuclear plants since the Soviet era. Do you mean under under America’s nuclear weapon umbrella? Nuclear weapons development is significantly different from power generation.

It might be if it didn’t take 20 to 30 years to build, the time for the liberals to implement nuclear was John Howard’s time or earlier, it’s too late now. If Dutton thinks he can build a functioning reactor in 10 years then someone is blowing smoke up his arse.

Trump won’t care if it sours relations with other signees he’ll just roll it back regardless of the impact, unless of course they make one of the resolutions that everyone agrees Donald Trump is the best leader ever.

Israel is totally moving “settlers” into Syria asap. The “southern demilitarised zone” will soon be “Northern Israel” and Israel will be all like “this was always Israel, those people that have been in that 3000 year old concentration camp for generations are all illegal immigrants, how dare they be mad at us for imprisoning them and taking their shit?!”

Yeah education is really where this effort should have gone, classic nanny state Australia. Sadly the law is coming from a generation who’s formative years was moulded by social interactions that were limited to post, rotary telephones, newspapers and school yard whispers. All of those things existed when they were born and were replaced by social media post midlife crisis. They have no concept of how to deal with something like social media. All they see is their friends getting scammed online and their newspapers talking about online child pornography. You’d think they’d realise from cigarettes, alcohol, drugs and old timey porn magazines that outright banning it does almost nothing to stop teenagers accessing it.

“Hey here’s an evolving disruptive technology that is becoming more integrated with our society than the newspaper or telephone ever could have dreamt. Quick let’s ban our kids from it until they are effectively adults so they only have as much understanding of it as me and maybe end up doing something dangerous with it because they have to treat it like a taboo”

I was about to suggest that this should only apply to people hosting web services with a social aspects like comment threads or multiplayer games, but I wonder if the definition might be loose enough to be applied to an ISP, or even a parent who is providing access to an ISP.

Arguably they only banned kids from Australia (or 5eyes) hosted social media

Jeepers shouldn’t they be paying to protect water supplies from increased salinity over sea walls to protect against property damage?

They won’t ban the site, they will just fine them for not verifying age (30,000 penalty units, 1 federal penalty unit is $110).

Lemmy does fit the definition outlined in the act, the thing they haven’t defined is what the reasonable steps will be to verify age. It will likely only apply to sites hosted or with a presence in Australia. Its not like they can fine an instance in a random country although maybe if it’s a jurisdiction that will play ball (maybe 5 eyes countries, maybe close trading partners).

I remember reading an article once that claimed that 12 year old girls had some of the most buying power in western societies due to their influence on their fathers decision making. It suggested that there were whole ad campaigns focused on their demographic for a huge range of things that you wouldn’t normally associate with 12 year old girls (eg cars).

The legislation does appear to include requirements for handling of personal data acquired to confirm age of users.

63D outlines the requirement:

A provider of an age-restricted social media platform must take reasonable steps to prevent age-restricted users having accounts with the age-restricted social media platform.

There isn’t really a definition of what reasonable steps are but that looks like it’s on the commissioner to define them under section 27 of the act. A platform is a service that basically allows interaction between users and a service “includes a website” (does that include gaming servers?) so Lemmy sites would most certainly fit the bill. It really depends how onerous these reasonable steps are as to whether Lemmy sites will be able to implement them.

Not sure how the act implementers plan to deal with servers hosted in other countries. Will they block them? If not then this is mostly a paper tiger, but also an impediment to further development of Australia based platforms.

Yeah I didn’t read the article, that sounds fair

I feel like the big one in western Australia is pretty easily explained … that’s a big ole desert and we are moving in to summer …