Seems to me, there’s no real way to age verify people. This is pointless.

Want ID? Kids can just upload a fake one.

The app wants access to your phone’s camera, so it can use ai to assess your age? Well I don’t know for certain, but I’m 99.9% there’s probably a way to trick your phone into using a virtual camera, showing images of a middle-aged man.

What ever method of age verification, someone will figure out a way to trick it, and kids will be onto the trick very quickly.

Hi friend. It sucks to be paywalled. But here’s a link to very similar article.

There are far too many people who will benefit financially from this to allow that to happen.

Orly? Can you give me a couple of examples?

I’m opposed to this trend myself, btw. But I just interpreted as a bit of pointless over regulation by a bunch of populist nanny-statists. You’re telling me there’s financial interests involved as well?

You’ve obviously neverheard of the illustrious 8th century Norwegian King, Eystein the Fart.

We could actually improve our democracy by making voting mandatory.

In Australia, we’ve tried that. I have to say, that I personally, am not a fan.

The consequences of forcing politically ignorant or complacent people to vote is that they end up deciding the result of the election, and you just get skilled used car salesmen as your politicians. They know all the buzzwords and three word slogans to keep the politically apathetic tuned in.

I know you mrrrkns absolutely hate it when furriners’ talk about your politics, but it saddens me to see a fellow democracy in such a state. Both these guys are demented old f&@ks! These are the best candidates your democratic system can give you? Really? I know we Aussies have plenty to cringe about, but jeez!

This wouldn’t surprise me at all, if it almost entirely be rental scooters.

Here in Adelaide, they have these rental scooters lining the sidewalks on the nightlife strips - on the weekend!

This seems to me to be almost criminally negligent. What do they think drunk, young people are going to do with these things? They are going to ride them, while drunk, and they are going to have accidents, of course.

I like the rental scooters, as they’re a great way of getting round the city when you’re in a hurry, but they should shut them down on the weekend evenings, FFS.

I wonder whether there’ll be this much outage when Jillian Assange is sentenced for espionage in the US.

Looks like we have a movement then. Only small, so far, but …