Comment on How Australia's social media ban threatens free expression
SarahFromOz@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoDepends what you believe. The more cynical believe it is about connecting real identities with online comments.
The more generous believe it’s about safety.
I think this is absolutely the wrong way to go about things though.
minorkeys@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What do the realists, believe?
SarahFromOz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That once again politicians just don’t know what they are doing but need to at least pretend they are doing something good. This is probably fairly close to the truth.
Turdburglar has the right idea too, that it’s about selling age verification as another service. Sounds about right. They would charge for air and the government would let them as long as they kicked back a percentage.
turdburglar@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
that they are creating another middleman for collecting money from the population at large as is seen in the health insurance industry in the us.
buy your online age verification from us and get free cloud storage for a year…