Comment on Australians soon facing age checks when viewing adult websites
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 9 hours agoI’m going through deciding what I can do without… but now you have to hand over ID to use fucking email?
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.
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.
Taleya@aussie.zone 9 hours 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
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 9 hours 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.