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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks.

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Speaker 2: A'd be well, Australia has passed its big law. This

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Speaker 2: is the social Media band, so effectively, sixteen year olds

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Speaker 2: in Australia, well, people under the age of sixteen in

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Speaker 2: Australia will not be allowed to use social media. They're

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Speaker 2: going to have various verification processes, but the burden or

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Speaker 2: the onus to verify social media uses ages all gets

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Speaker 2: put on the social media companies themselves. Our textbit Postine

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Speaker 2: houses here with the details. Calder Paul, this is pretty big.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I truly don't know how they're going to

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Speaker 3: do this Jack, in all seriousness, I don't know what

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Speaker 3: the solution is going to be, especially when the government

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Speaker 3: has said they cannot use any government ID, so they

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Speaker 3: can't use a passport, they can't use a birth certificate

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Speaker 3: Jurdi privacy concerns, and I was actually racking my brain

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Speaker 3: this morning trying to think of how they could do this,

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Speaker 3: and the only other form of verification I could think

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Speaker 3: was a credit card, and a credit card is typically

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Speaker 3: issued to people over the age of eighteen, but that's

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Speaker 3: not sixteen, and obviously that also creates quite a barrier, right, Oh,

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Speaker 3: you've got to have a credit card. Well, then you've

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Speaker 3: got to have a credit score. You've got to like

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Speaker 3: have maintained good credit, or you've got to apply or

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Speaker 3: whatever it is. I truly don't understand what they're going

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Speaker 3: to do here.

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Speaker 4: Yeah tough, Yeah, yeah, And look, I've worked in digital

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Speaker 4: products for quite some time, and I'm seriously I'm racking

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Speaker 4: my brain to think what they're going to do.

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Speaker 3: Unless they get together. The government said they don't want

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Speaker 3: to do any sort of kind of you know, like

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Speaker 3: sixteen plus ID. So unleas the social media companies get

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Speaker 3: together and create like a consortium and they create their

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Speaker 3: own kind of like sixteen plus ID. Honestly, I'm trying

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Speaker 3: to think of what the companies would do. Like if

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Speaker 3: I was working at somewhere like Meta and was given

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Speaker 3: this problem, I don't know how I'd solve it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be amazing. I mean, the burden

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Speaker 2: riders shifted onto the social media companies, so they get.

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Speaker 1: For the fine.

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Speaker 3: Hey, but remember the burden is there already today because

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Speaker 3: you have to be over thirteen in their terms and conditions.

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Speaker 2: You have to their terms and conditions, but they don't

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Speaker 2: get punished. Right, so if someone if someone breaks it,

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Speaker 2: they don't get fined.

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Speaker 3: No, but they do. I mean they do the only

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Speaker 3: thing you can do, which is put what's your birthday?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like I were a part from some I mean no,

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Speaker 2: I've had stuff though where I've had to send photo

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Speaker 2: ID before. I mean, that's what makes it tricky to me. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: rock and a hard place.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a really good example of a law

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Speaker 3: of it. It sounds great, don't get me wrong. Do

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Speaker 3: we need to do something about kids in social media? Absolutely,

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Speaker 3: but this.

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Speaker 2: You're not convinced by this one? Interesting?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Okay, well look, well the proof of the puddings in

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Speaker 2: the eating. We'll see how it all goes. Hey. Interestingly,

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Speaker 2: while lots of companies are trying to put satellites in

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Speaker 2: space to increase internet access basics of course being top

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Speaker 2: of the list, Meta is building a ten billion dollar

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Speaker 2: undersea cable that spans the entire globe.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, when your company is ten percent of all

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Speaker 3: land based internet traffic and twenty two percent of all

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Speaker 3: mobile internet traffic on the planet, you know that pipes

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Speaker 3: are important, and that's why they are laying a forty

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Speaker 3: thousand kilometer cable. This is the report, so they haven't

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Speaker 3: confirmed this yet, but all reports suggest so this is

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Speaker 3: what they're going to do. It's going to take them

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Speaker 3: around ten years to complete, and it's a fascinating pattern.

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Speaker 3: It's called the w It goes from the east coast

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Speaker 3: in the US down to South Africa, up to India,

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Speaker 3: down to Australia. They're going to use Darwin at the

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Speaker 3: top of Australia there and then over to the west

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Speaker 3: coast of the US, So it forms that kind of

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Speaker 3: double shape around the world and purposely avoiding areas that

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Speaker 3: they're saying have geopolitical tension, such as such as the

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Speaker 3: Red Sea and the South China Sea because one of

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Speaker 3: the things that some of these groups are doing disrupt

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Speaker 3: things as they're disrupting the undersea cables and of course

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Speaker 3: repairing trying to repair those as a bit of a nightmare.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, they're trying to take these routes that they

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Speaker 3: think are going to be the safest. It's interesting though,

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Speaker 3: right because if you own the pipe, you can control

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Speaker 3: what you do with the pip and so it's in

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Speaker 3: some ways it could be a win for META customers

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Speaker 3: because it's the WhatsApps, the Facebook's the Instagrams of the

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Speaker 3: world because they get to prioritize their own traffic. And interestingly,

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Speaker 3: if Meta is going to play in this AI game,

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Speaker 3: there is a lot of AI innovation technology skills in India,

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Speaker 3: and they say that this pipe that is obviously you know,

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Speaker 3: has India as part of its w means that the

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Speaker 3: US will have Meta will have a nice high speed

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Speaker 3: pathway to get access to the data centers that they

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Speaker 3: think will be built for AI in India.

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Speaker 2: Interesting, that's really intriguing. Maybe it're just trying to organize

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Speaker 2: that there.

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Speaker 3: Can you imagine how long that cable has to be,

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Speaker 3: Like I'm trying to think of the cable drum on

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Speaker 3: the back of the show.

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Speaker 2: Oh huge, Yeah, I think I think there's only a

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Speaker 2: hunch that I suspect they might need to refill the

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Speaker 2: cable drum one or two times. Hey, thank you so

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Speaker 2: much for We'll catch you in soon. That's our textbook.

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