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Reddit files legal challenge to Australia social media ban

Sydney (AFP) – Online discussion site Reddit launched a legal challenge Friday to Australia’s social media ban for under-16s, just days after the landmark law came into effect. This week, the country became the first to ban young teen accounts from a raft of popular apps and sites including TikTok, YouTube and Instagram. Tech companies that fail to purge Australia-based users younger than 16 now face fines of Aus$49.5 million (US$33 million). Court filings by US-based Reddit challenged the validity of the law that “infringes the implied freedom of political communication”, calling for a review by Australia’s High Court. The filing also argued that the company should be exempt from the government’s list of banned platforms, on the grounds that it is an online discussion forum aimed at adults. “Unlike other platforms included under this law, the vast majority of Redditors are adults, we don’t market or target advertising to children under 18,” a Reddit statement said. “Simply put, users under 16 are not a substantial market segment for Reddit and we don’t intend them to be.” Pointing to the site’s age rating of “17+” on the Apple App Store, Reddit said the best way to verify age was at the app store level rather than requiring each platform to carry out checks. A spokesperson said there were serious privacy concerns associated with platforms verifying age, with the collection of personal data creating a risk of leaks or hacks. The government was also inconsistent in selecting which platforms should be banned, the spokesperson argued, with some apps with large under-16 user groups exempt. Those include Roblox, Pinterest and WhatsApp, but the government has stressed that the list remains under review. Reddit criticised the law as “missing the mark on protecting young people online”. “While we will comply with this law, we have a responsibility to share our perspective and see that it is reviewed by the courts,” Reddit said. The sprawling forum site made up of thousands of niche communities had previously warned on the eve of the December 10 ban that the government’s move was “legally erroneous”. It is not the only tech firm to condemn the ban – Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, also raised concerns that teens could flock to darker, less regulated corners of the internet seeking connection with peers. An Australian government spokesperson said Friday authorities were “on the side of Australian parents and kids, not platforms”. “We will stand firm to protect young Australians from experiencing harm on social media.” Reddit’s case is separate from one filed by an internet rights group last month, which is also seeking to overturn the law on the grounds it is an “unfair” assault on freedom of speech. Australia’s ban is being closely watched worldwide, with New Zealand and Malaysia mulling similar restrictions. The government concedes the ban will be far from perfect at the outset and canny teenagers will find ways to slip through the cracks. But authorities say unprecedented measures are needed to protect children from “predatory algorithms” filling phone screens with bullying, sex and violence.

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Australia bans under-16s from social media in world-first crackdown

Sydney (AFP) – Australia banned under-16s from social media in a world-first crackdown on Wednesday, declaring it was time to “take back control” from formidable tech giants. A raft of popular apps and websites – Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and X among them – face US$33 million fines if they fail to purge Australia-based users younger than 16. Australia becomes one of the first nations to push back so forcefully against tech companies with immense political power, in a move other countries are looking at closely. “Enough is enough,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said. "It is one of the biggest social and cultural changes that our nation has faced. “We will take back control.” The government says unprecedented measures are needed to protect children from “predatory algorithms” filling phone screens with bullying, sex and violence. The laws came into effect after midnight local time across Australia. Hundreds of thousands of adolescents woke up to find themselves locked out of apps they once scrolled through for hours each day. Bianca Navarro, 10, was already counting the years until she could log in again to YouTube. “It will be pretty sad because I have six years until I can watch it,” she told AFP. Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat and Reddit are forbidden from creating or keeping accounts belonging to users in Australia under 16. Streaming platforms Kick and Twitch are also on the government’s blacklist, as are Threads and X. The ban has been hailed as a godsend for parents sick of seeing children stuck to their phones. Mia Bannister blamed social media for the suicide of her teenage son Ollie, who killed himself last year after he was bullied online. He was also being served endless dieting videos that fuelled an eating disorder, she said. “I’m sick of the social media giants shirking responsibility,” she told AFP in the lead-up to the ban. “The problem is we hand them a phone and we hand them the greatest weapon we could hand them.” A growing body of research suggests too much time online is taking a toll on teen wellbeing. But it is hard to draw firm conclusions that separate phone use from other lifestyle factors, experts say. Father-of-five Dany Elachi said the restrictions were a long-overdue “line in the sand”. “We need to err on the side of caution before putting anything addictive in the hands of children,” he told AFP. Tech-savvy teenagers the world over have taken an interest in Australia’s measures. “Students nowadays, they are really distracted,” said Nigerian high-schooler Mitchelle Okinedo, 15. “Social media today is very important for expressing yourself, no matter how old you are,” said Santiago Ramirez Rojas, 16, from Mexico City. YouTube, Meta and other social media giants have lined up to condemn the ban. Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, said children were already flocking to darker online spaces. “We’ve consistently raised concerns that this poorly developed law could push teens to less regulated platforms or apps,” the US-based firm told AFP in a statement. “We’re now seeing those concerns become reality.” Elon Musk’s X told young users the ban was “not our choice”. “It’s what the Australian law requires.” Lesser-known chat and image-sharing apps Lemon8 and yope, which are not currently listed in the social media ban, have shot up the download charts in Australia. While most platforms have begrudgingly agreed to comply, for now, legal challenges are in the wind. Online discussion site Reddit said Tuesday it could not confirm local media reports that said it would seek to overturn the ban in Australia’s High Court. An Australian internet rights group has launched its own bid to have teenagers re-instated to social media. Australia’s efforts will be closely watched by all those worried about the dangers of social media. New Zealand and Malaysia are mulling similar restrictions. But platforms face the threat of Aus$49.5 million (US$33 million) fines if they fail to take “reasonable steps” to stop this happening. It remains to be seen how Australia’s internet safety regulator will interpret what counts as reasonable. Social media companies bear the sole responsibility for checking users are 16 or older. Some platforms say they will use AI tools to estimate ages based on photos, while young users may also choose to prove their age by uploading government ID. Which platforms fall under the ban continues to be debated. Popular apps and websites such as Roblox, Pinterest and WhatsApp are currently exempt – but the government has stressed that the list remains under review. Most social media platforms already require users be at least 13, a legacy of US laws setting the minimum age for data collection without parental consent.

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Russia bans Roblox for promoting 'LGBT propaganda'

https://archive.is/Evvi2 https://kotaku.com/russia-bans-roblox-lgbtq-roskomnadzor-2000650125 https://www.reuters.com/technology/russia-blocks-access-us-childrens-gaming-platform-roblox-2025-12-03/

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Roblox tells employees they have to come to office three days a week or take severance package

As a long time gamer, playing Roblox with my niece made me feel old for the first time. I have no idea why the hell kids play that game so much outside of the social media aspect with their friends. It really seems like they are tapping into the addictions of children. I’ve wasted money on game DLC before, but the amount of crap kids buy on Roblox is insane. I don’t think parents really know what they are giving them when they buy gift cards for it. If it makes them happy, okay fine, but I really think it’s something psychological that the company is taking advantage of. Rant over. I agree with everyone else. Something is about to go down. I hope they all take severance and leave. Three days is still better than what I get… which is like 20 WFH days a year… but ultimatums are never a good sign.

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Roblox rule

Knowing Roblox users, it was probably a free and accessible asset to repurpose.

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There is software/a technology company/a game named after MANY of the elements in the periodic table

edit: many, not most Based on a few quick searches, here’s what I came up with. You can tell that I got pretty bored once I got to the Lanthanide series and beyond. The ones without “:” are the ones I didn’t check, as I doubt there’s any software called “Dysprosium” and “Roentgenium”, but I would love to be proven wrong! One thing of note, I included a few racehorses are named after elements (most of which from the 1800s, which is interesting) 1 - H - Hydrogen: open-source drum machine 2 - He - Helium: Chromium-based browser, “Helium10” is e-commerce software 3 - Li - Lithium: “Li3”, formerly “lithium”, is a PHP web framework, optimization mod for Minecraft 4 - Be - Beryllium: proprietary lathe software written in Python 5 - B - Boron: N/A? 6 - C - Carbon: C-based API developed by Apple to port classic Mac apps to MacOS X, programming language developed by Google to be interoperable with C++, “Karbon” is some accounting management software 7 - N - Nitrogen: Financial planning software (previously “Riskalyze”). Funnily enough, there is also a racehorse called “Nitrogen” which, according to Wikipedia, was the 2024 “Canadian Champion Two-Year-Old Filly”! 8 - O - Oxygen: default font in KDE, “OxygenOS” is the skin of Android in (global) OnePlus phones. “Oxygen XML editor” is self-explanatory. Again, there is a racehorse called “Oxygen” which Wikipedia says was regarded as the “leading two-year-old filly in the South of England in 1830”! 9 - F - Fluorine: some productivity app 10 - Ne - Neon: game engine, music visualisation software, “KDE Neon” is a distro developed by KDE 11 - Na - Sodium: Minecraft optimization mod, MMO game for PS3, and interestingly enough, another racehorse! 12 - Mg - Magnesium: port of the “Sodium” Minecraft optimization mod for Forge 13 - Al - Aluminium: Google’s “Aluminium OS” (replacement for ChromeOS), various software designed for manufacturing/designing aluminium parts 14 - Si - Silicon: “Silicon IDE” is self explanatory, “Silicon Labs” is a Japanese technology company, Apple’s processors are known as “Apple Silicon”, you of course have “Silicon Valley” 15 - P - Phosphorus: some IoT enterprise solution. This is also yet another racehorse, which won the 1837 Epsom Derby despite having a leg injury! 16 - S - Sulfur/Sulphur: a modern old-school action-adventure game, codename for Fedora 9. “Sulphur Nimbus: Hel’s Elixir” is a game on itch.io where you control a hippogriff, interesting! 17 - Cl - Chlorine: library to interact with OpenCL devices 18 - Ar - Argon: CAD modelling software, tool for developing Roblox games. “Argon2” is a cryptographic key derivation function that won the 2015 Password Hashing Competition 19 - K - Potassium: “Kalium” (where we get the symbol “K” from!) is the name of a web framework that handle asynchronous microservices 20 - Ca - Calcium: digital health software, web calendar by “Brown Bear Software” 21 - Sc - Scandium: Automation tool for software testing. One thing of note, a company called “Element 21” (a golf and fishing equipment company) paid the Russian Federal Space Agency to launch a golf ball into space! 22 - Ti - Titanium: Sophisticated malware discovered in 2019 by Kaspersky Lab. “Titanium SDK” is used to develop native Android and iOS apps using JavaScript. 23 - V - Vanadium: Browser developed by the GrapheneOS team 24 - Cr - Chromium: The backbone of all the modern browsers, aside from Firefox and its forks, OpenGL implementation 25 - Mn - Manganese: Codename for Windows 10 20H2 apparently? 26 - Fe - Iron: C# library company (they have a suite of .NET apps prefixed with “Iron”), “IronFox” is a privacy-focused Android browser 27 - Co - Cobalt: codename for v6.0 of PalmOS, action side-scrolling game developed by Mojang, CAD modelling program 28 - Ni - Nickel: some payment processor 29 - Cu - Copper: some web-based project management tool 30 - Zn - Zinc: “Zinc Application Platform” is used for creating GUI apps. “OpenZinc” is a project to preserve v1.0 to v4.2 of the former. It’s also ANOTHER racehorse! 31 - Ga - Gallium: “Gallium3D” is a set of open-source graphics drivers that is part of the Mesa library of graphics drivers. “GalliumOS” is a discontinued OS targeting Chromebooks 32 - Ge - Germanium: Codename for Windows 11 24H2 33 - As - Arsenic: audience response system (whatever that is?), some online gaming website 34 - Se - Selenium: software testing framework 35 - Br - Bromine: codename for Windows 11 26H2 (an apt name, it sounds very smelly with lots of AI “features”…). “Bromite”, the Chromium-based browser, is pretty close but is an ion containing bromine (BrO2-) 36 - Kr - Krypton: a programming language 37 - Rb - Rubidium: N/A? 38 - Sr - Strontium: Russian hacker group “Fancy Bear” is sometimes called “STRONTIUM” 39 - Y - Yttrium: Russian hacker group “Cozy Bear” is sometimes called “YTTRIUM” 40 - Zr - Zirconium: N/A? 41 - Nb - Niobium: N/A? 42 - Mo - Molybdenum: N/A? 43 - Tc - Technetium: N/A? 44 - Ru - Ruthenium: N/A? 45 - Rh - Rhodium: N/A? 46 - Pd - Palladium: A 1958 CIA program to study and interfere Soviet radar (yes really) 47 - Ag - Silver: 2nd gen Pokemon game, various video game characters named Silver 48 - Cd - Cadmium: N/A? 49 - In - Indium: N/A? 50 - Sn - Tin: newsreader software 51 - Sb - Antimony: CAD software 52 - Te - Tellurium: some Python package about biology stuff idk 53 - I - Iodine: some AI software used in hospitals, idk 54 - Xe - Xenon: Dutch software used in 6 countries to find tax evaders (yes really), codename for Xbox 360 55 - Cs - Caesium/Cesium: library specialising in “3D geospatial visualisation” (i.e. globes) 56 - Ba - Barium: N/A? 57 - La - Lanthanum: N/A? 58 - Ce - Cerium 59 - Pr - Praseodymium 60 - Nd - Neodymium 61 - Pm - Promethium 62 - Sm - Samarium 63 - Eu - Europium 64 - Gd - Gadolinium 65 - Tb - Terbium 66 - Dy - Dysprosium 67 - Ho - Holmium 68 - Er - Erbium 69 - Tm - Thulium 70 - Yb - Ytterbium 71 - Lu - Lutetium 72 - Hf - Hafnium 73 - Ta - Tantalum 74 - W - Tungsten: “WolframAlpha” is a supercharged version of the calculator (“Wolfram” is where we get the W!), “Wolfram Language” is used in the computing program “Wolfram Mathematica” 75 - Re - Rhenium 76 - Os - Osmium: Tool for working with OpenStreetMap data 77 - Ir - Iridium: satellite company 78 - Pt - Platinum: 4th gen pokemon game 79 - Au - Gold: 2nd gen Pokemon game and its protagonist 80 - Hg - Mercury: software developed by the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre to analyze crystal structures 81 - Tl - Thallium 82 - Pb - Lead: N/A? 83 - Bi - Bismuth: programming language, tiling windows add-on for KDE Plasma 84 - Po - Polonium: N/A? 85 - At - Astatine 86 - Rn - Radon 87 - Fr - Francium 88 - Ra - Radium 89 - Ac - Actinium 90 - Th - Thorium: Chromium-based browser 91 - Pa - Protactinium 92 - U - Uranium: backup software 93 - Np - Neptunium: N/A? 94 - Pu - Plutonium: Call of Duty mod 95 - Am - Americium 96 - Cm - Curium 97 - Bk - Berkelium 98 - Cf - Californium 99 - Es - Einsteinium 100 - Fm - Fermium 101 - Md - Mendelevium: N/A? 102 - No - Nobelium 103 - Lr - Lawrencium 104 - Rf - Rutherfordium 105 - Db - Dubnium 106 - Sg - Seaborgium 107 - Bh - Bohrium 108 - Hs - Hassium 109 - Mt - Meitnerium 110 - Ds - Darmstadtium 111 - Rg - Roentgenium 112 - Cn - Copernicium 113 - Nh - Nihonium 114 - Fl - Flerovium 115 - Mc - Moscovium 116 - Lv - Livermorium 117 - Ts - Tennessine 118 - Og - Oganesson: free open-source cache deleter? Weird Is this the right community to post this in? It’s not really a meme, but it’s not very serious either… Now I need to get back to doing chemistry homework…

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I have no words here

Some of the Roblox players are growing up and they don’t want them to stop using Roblox for literally everything

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Thinking about switching to Linux; main concern is son's games

The games you listed all work on Linux. Roblox sometimes has problems but currently works. You need Sober to launch Roblox. With Minecraft it depends on the edition. Java Edition works great. Bedrock Edition is rocky. The Windows version doesn’t work at all but the Android version does through the Bedrock Launcher. You’d have to buy it on Google Play. But if he plays Java Edition he’s golden.

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Existe-t-il un jeu vidéo multijoueur sur smartphone qui ne soit pas de la merde ?

Le fils de ma compagne qui a 11 ans, est en train de plonger à pieds joints dans le merdier des jeux à micropaiements (Roblox). Je me demandais s’il existe un jeu sur mobile (la plateforme commune à tout son groupe de copains) auquel il puisse jouer avec ses copains et qui ne soit pas une grosse purge conçue pour générer une dépendance maximale ?

Komunitas lemmy.world

Facebook's VR Headset Not Selling, Literally Giving It Away

This is the dumbest take on what’s happening. The Quest 3 is better than the Pro and it comes out next month. We don’t need the Pro anymore. Some of y’all need to use some critical thinking. Roblox also just recently got a lot of attention towards it from Meta; it’s not a coincidence these were Roblox devs that the Pros were given to.

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Roblox Hit With Multimillion-Dollar Suit By Los Angeles, for Creating Largely Unsupervised Online World That Enables Predatory Pedophiles and Give Them Powerful Tools to Prey on Kids

Most games are games with a chat feature. ROBLOX IS A CHATROOM WITH A GAMES FEATURE. It’s a chatroom where 60% of the user base is under the age of 16 and 40% is under 12. Grooming happens on Roblox. Predators move that conversation to places Discord which is where the crimes happen. I am an adult who helped a kid that was the victim of online predators. When talking to your kids about online safety, come up with a plan just like you might for a fire. Make sure they know what to do when something makes them uncomfortable and make sure you identify a 3rd party adult that you trust and your kid feels safe talking to, maybe a close family friend or an aunt/uncle. That last part is how I got involved. I don’t have my own kids, but I knew a kid that felt more comfortable talking to me about that stuff than to his parents.