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Australians will have to verify their age to watch pornography from Monday. Here’s what you need to know

https://aussie.zone/post/30389039

Australians will have to verify their age to watch pornography from Monday. Here’s what you need to know - Aussie Zone

The eSafety commissioner’s office has said the age-assurance trial report found geolocation technology and other signals could be used to detect if users are trying to use a VPN. The report itself suggests VPN users should not be blocked, but checked with age verification. That could mean that, if implemented, anyone using a VPN anywhere in the world to access the sites would have to verify their age, despite not being in Australia.

Mar 8 at 8:26amWeb
Show threadpHr34kYMar 8

Won’t this mean people are pushed onto dodgier sites that refuse to comply with the law?

See you all on tor.

Show threadryannathansMar 8
Gonna be waiting for boobies to load like dialup, line by line
Show threaddumbassMar 8
Get a hit of nostalgia before ya fap.
Show threadteftMar 8

We got the deed done back then, you can do it today.

If you time it right you’ll blow your load right as her tits load in fully.

Show threadZ3k3Mar 8
Yes. A study was released in the uk after doing similar verification said exactly that. The solution ofcourse is even tighter regulation
Show threadx00zMar 8
I’m loading up SD cards to sell to kids in alleys.
Show threadRailcar8095Mar 8
It shows your age of you think kids know what an SD card is for, aside from expanding Switch’s disk.
Show threadx00zMar 8
When I start selling them they’ll become very well known.
Show threadAlexstarfireMar 8
I wonder if porn in the woods will become a thing again.
Show threadcdzeroMar 9
Maybe the bushes
Show threadNigelFrobisherMar 8
You’re supposed to leave them in hedges.
Show threadsuodrazahMar 8
Laughs in international IP
Show threaddumbassMar 8

That could mean that, if implemented, anyone using a VPN anywhere in the world to access the sites would have to verify their age, despite not being in Australia.

Yeah, can’t see that going wrong at all.

Show threadfizzleMar 8
Sure, lets normalise having to activate device cameras immediately before having a wank. I can’t imagine what could possibly go wrong here. I look forward to some high profile politicans getting blackmailed.
Show threadfinallymadeanaccountMar 8
Nah. They do all their business in the Prayer Room.
Show threaddarkdemizeMar 8
There’s a great Black Mirror episode that pretty much starts like that. Episode name is “Shut Up and Dance” for those interested.
Show threadFundMECFSMar 8
Only watch if you don’t mind watching terrible things happen lol. (I mean people should know that given it’s black mirror but just in case).
Show threadRailcar8095Mar 8

Measures could include photo ID, facial age estimation, credit card checks and confirmation of age by a parent

I’m curious how the last one works. “Yes, he’s my son and he’s 18, now show him some furry pussy”

Show threadshirroMar 9

Two observations here. One on the legislation itself and one on the impacts.

Firstly, not everything that claims to be protecting the children is being pushed for that purpose and our politicians may not even know the real reasons. Apparently in the USA similar legislation is being pushed by groups funded largely by Meta (Facebook). One reason suggested is that they have a massive exposure to fines in the US via COPPA and age verification could offer them protection. Ofcourse another reason might be that the tech industry is substantially funded by harvesting people’s information, habits and connections for various nefarious and profitable purposes and age verification can be a new source of information about people. There are companies like Palantir especially that will be attempting to mine as much of that information as possible. The eSafety commissioner’s previous employment and associations make her appear less independent that I would like. I also don’t believe most politicians really know who has been pushing for these changes.

Secondly, not all adult sexual content online is the same. The “free” sites are funded by promoting paid sites and advertising. They had no age barriers. The assumption always was that these well known sites would be blocked by responsible adults using simple filtering software. They will now require verification for visitors from locations where that is mandated. The paid sites already have a form of verification via payments and likely nothing will change substantially. All the kids today, as they did decades ago, likely have a sad friend with a massive porn stash who happily shares it for social credit. So essentially the Internet is getting a partial reset to the late 90s before everything good got commercialized and a bunch of psychos got stinking rich of it. Bring on the P2P.

Don’t age verify. Find another hobby.