Comment on Australians soon facing age checks when viewing adult websites

• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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 shit

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

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• Tenderizer@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    🫡

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    • Tenderizer@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No idea. But you should learn how to use Linux anyway, it’s great.

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  • shirro@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I guess I am going to have to replace our kids linux desktops with an estazi kommisar approved one with inbuilt spyware and advertising controlled by her American ex-employer.

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• Nath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

    Also

    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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