Australia says GitHub is as dangerous as TikTok.

Wait, hold up. GitHub is now in the same danger zone as Instagram for kids? That’s the real threat to humanity! I picture a government official saying, “We must protect the children from viewing the unchecked rage over a missing semicolon!”

It just proves that in the modern world, any place where people talk even if they’re only talking about Python version compatibility is classified as “social media.” Soon, even the comment section on a calculator app will require parental supervision. The wild west of the internet has truly become… the mildly tense but hyper-technical west.

Australia’s new age restriction law kicks in December 10th, and it’s banning everyone under sixteen from social media platforms. Fair enough nobody’s thrilled about tweens doomscrolling through toxic comment sections. But then the eSafety Commissioner sent letters to about sixteen companies, and nestled between TikTok and dating apps was GitHub, and the entire internet collectively spat out its coffee.

The government’s logic goes something like this: GitHub lets users interact, comment, and share content. So, it’s a social media. By that definition, my grocery store is a social network because I once chatted with someone about avocados in the produce section. Microsoft Word is a social network because it has a comment feature. My…