The federal government has given an online age verification pilot the green light. Here's what we know about it

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• a1studmuffin@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Responding to eSafety’s roadmap last year, the government set a few tests that any age verification scheme would have to meet. They included confidence it can’t be circumvented, can be easily applied to companies based abroad, and don’t risk the privacy of adults looking to legally access porn.

  This is going absolutely nowhere then. All three of those bullet points are impossible problems on their own. What a waste of money.

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  • MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Australia, the testing ground for bad privacy invading policy for the five (/thirteen/whatever we’re up to now) eyes. Also run by technical morons (“The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia”). ASSAct etc.

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  • PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They don’t care if it never works because the true goal is to convert public funds into private profits.

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• Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are they putting any extra money into sex education or are we still pretending access to hardcore pornography is the only issue?

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It seems they’ve scapegoated one thing to look busy. I’d love to see more resources given to housing* and family violence services, better sex ed around consent, and for police to consistently act on reports rather than brushing them off.

    • There are calls to provide more housing for those escaping their relationships but whether that materialises is another matter

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    • Zozano@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s all part of the show.

      They have to do something to seem competent in response to the stabbings.

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• snekerpimp@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “We are collecting and selling your data, you know, for the kids”

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  • slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Data integrity checks with industry leading third party partners.

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• Affidavit@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Great. More taxpayer money going towards complete and utter stupidity. Anyone with even the most basic knowledge of the Internet knows how dumb and technologically unfeasible this is, yet this nonsense still continues to gain traction.

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• UnfortunateDoorHinge@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well this is just impossible. The UK tried to do this and failed. Plus I’m not sure how this is going to reduce DV? Is there a problem of kids strangling their partners during sex? Isn’t there a better way to educate them?

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Anecdotally there are issues with random non consensual choking etc. But I agree they’re drawing a long bow and this isn’t going to be as effective or feasible as claimed. Implementing this would only cause unintentional (or intentional) consequences.

    Even if it did magically work for the stated purpose (which it won’t) it’s focusing far in the future when there’s a serious crisis right now.

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• macrocephalic@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Three in four children accessed porn before they were 18 before there was internet porn. Hell, I’d bet that three in four boomers were sexually active before they were 18 too.

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• Tregetour@lemdro.id ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The optimist in me says they’re doing the feasibility study while knowing nothing workable will result, so it can be shelved with little fuss.

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