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In about a week the kiddies lose access to some social media sites in Australia. The idea that children should be shielded from the manipulation of the algorithms is a good one, I think. To cope with (and maybe repel) the barrage of bollocks that rolls down the internet takes a more mature brain. The fact that the politicians don't seem to care about how it'll actually be done doesn't really surprise me.
What will they do instead? When I was fifteen, I was typing HTML into SimpleText and uploading it to an iiNet web server. My friends were doing the same, and we got to realise that we were all looking at each other's websites, so we started embedding snide remarks about each other's design capabilities. I remember being roundly teased for knowing how to link to a page, but not how "to link back again" to the first page.
So that's my recommendation to the yoof of today: get yourself a spot to chuck HTML, and go wild.
Or maybe just sign up to a Mastodon server.
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