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Australians soon facing age checks when viewing adult websites (www.dundaslawyers.com.au)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/australia@aussie.zone
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36086180

Australians soon facing age checks when viewing adult websites [& search engines, social media, file sharing, etc, etc]

And all service providers/hosts around the world are expected to comply.

Here's one summary of the looming access control measures.

Reading and understanding all this (and the linked sources) feels so.. difficult, obtuse, complex.

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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I’m going through deciding what I can do without… but now you have to hand over ID to use fucking email?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Operating systems are on the list. You're gonna have to go fully offline.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I guess I will be replacing our kids linux desktops with an estasi kommissar approved OS with inbuilt spyware and advertising controlled by her American ex-employer. Who were we trying to protect?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    This is a house entirely full of adults. I should be able to say - as account holder so a verified adult already - "there are no children accessing this shit" and then my ISP tells everyone to fuck off their age verification

    Well ideally you stop this bullshit and actually rely on parents parenting but we'll never do that shit

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Agreed, since parental controls already exist. Kids are just a partial smokescreen I think.

    Government wants to grandstand about preventing a very visible issue with kids online, but it’s a pretty sweet deal for gaining more surveillance powers. Social media platforms and search engine companies want to slurp up even more sensitive data.

    This bullshit makes me so angry. I can dispense with everything else but I can’t do without an email address.

    Something also mentioned storage so I’m going to have to find time and disk space to download decades of photos from Dropbox and Flickr.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I haven't seen email mentioned in the legislation. I suppose you could interpret Gmail/Hotmail etc as web sites you make accounts on in order to interact with something public. But that's a stretch and it wouldn't cover all email.

    Email would suffer the same issue as Lemmy. Even if you have a perfect way of verifying users that is accurate, you couldn't stop a kid setting up a mail service on their homelab.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    I’m trying to work out since it affects search engine signins would it affect Gmail.

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    Relevant electronic services: covers email, messaging, online chatrooms and dating services, as well as services for playing online games together.

    I really hope you’re right because fuck that.

    As for messaging (assuming that’s texts) the phone company should already have my age.

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