Submitted 8 hours ago by maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone to australia@aussie.zone
https://www.dundaslawyers.com.au/australians-soon-facing-age-checks-when-viewing-adult-websites/
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36086180
Australians soon facing age checks when viewing adult websites [& search engines, social media, file sharing, etc, etc]
And all service providers/hosts around the world are expected to comply.
Here’s one summary of the looming access control measures.
Reading and understanding all this (and the linked sources) feels so… difficult, obtuse, complex.
Haven’t seen much scrutiny over the “landmark” report released by the government a couple of weeks ago which forms the basis for the practical implementation of this system.
…gov.au/…/age-assurance-technology-trial-final-re…
It’s not an academic study from a trusted institution or even just an established think tank, but from an organisation that sort of popped up out of nowhere some years ago which appears to provide paid certification services for age assurance companies, while also evidently offering “research” for governments on the viability of implementing these schemes. They’d previously done a similar report for the UK government, which makes me rather cynical about our government’s motivations in choosing them. The news reporting on its release was a bit strange as it made it sound like the report was quite sceptical, but you don’t need to spend much time looking at it to see it’s very much telling the government what it wanted to hear (given they’d already committed to implementing such a scheme).
The companies people will be required to provide their documents/biometrics to also kind of popped up out of nowhere, and these are the sorts of folks behind them: bylinetimes.com/…/the-online-safety-act-is-forcin…
Haven’t seen much scrutiny
I’m pretty sure we criticised it pretty roundly in this Community (or other Communities on this Instance) back when it came out. But yeah, not much serious pushback from established media.
Which established media? Nine or Murdoch? I think we can assume by their silence that they have a seat at the table and are getting what they want.
A natural follow on from the under 16 social media bans.
I remember when we used to laugh at the restrictions China had on the internet, yet we’re happily walking down the same path.
If they want to block normies from porn and social media I don’t really give a shit. My fear is they are going to come after the fundamantal technology next: encryption, open source, open computing. eKaren used to work for very Big Tech. Everything about recent moves looks like a huge power grab for big tech and big media to data mine and control us more than ever with the force of government behind them.
They won’t be happy with people like me not buying and using their products, blocking their ads etc. The ultimate enshitification approaches. Total corporate control of our lives. Our votes and opinions are theirs to influence for their benefit and not ours.
Thanks everyone for voting for the e-karen.
The eSafety Commissioner was established under a Coalition government and age verification had bipartisan support at the most recent federal election.
What the actual fuck looking at that list. She’s set it up so anyone can fucking mine you. Theres insane amounts of redundancy.
the only one i like is the ISP. If you provide your age to your isp, then you don’t need anything else.
I’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.
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
ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 hour ago
This is fucking disgusting, the end of the internet as we know it