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Australians soon facing age checks when viewing adult websites (www.dundaslawyers.com.au)

submitted 2 days ago by maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 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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[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.