Comment on How Australia's social media ban threatens free expression

• SarahFromOz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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• turdburglar@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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…

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