Six tankers scheduled to deliver oil to Australia have had their voyages cancelled because of flow-on impacts from the war in the Middle East, with the nation’s energy minister now conceding fuel supply could become bumpy if the conflict drags on.
oh oh spaghettio
TheLunatickle@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Hmm we better suck america off some more and put age verification on the fuel pumps, that will solve everything.
porcoesphino@mander.xyz 2 days ago
I’d argue that age verification on large US tech companies products, what I presume you’re referencing, is the opposite of sucking up to the US
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Age verification is being promoted by surveillance capitalism lobbyists. It is literally an operation to deanon as much web traffic as possible for data harvesting, profiling, and propaganda. Handing everyones browsing data to the companies who sell and exploit that data is the opposite of protecting children.
Might as well let the fox secure the hen house by chaining up the chicks “to protect them”.
Salvo@aussie.zone 1 day ago
With Age Verification, we are now the Tech Company’s products.
Less than a year ago, companies were still advertising that they were anonymising user data.
They now have an obligation to collect non-anonymised data about us.
They have a statutory obligation to keep this information secure.
They also have EULAs that contradict their statutory obligation.
They have an obligation to protect this information, but they also have an obligation to their shareholders to mAxImIsE pRoFiT.
Since US businesses are currently being given carte blanche in civil liberty violations by their current administration, I think we are pretty much screwed.