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If it’s illegal anyway, you might as well pirate it.
I like godnrok’s suggestion of having bottle-o’s sell cards with proof of age numbers/hashes.
No problem giving those codes to minors. I bet such codes would be sold on the net withing 1 minute of the release of such a system.
Remembering that a valid age verification is supposed to be a parent approving their child’s use
“Muuuuu-uuum! I wanna have a wank to incest porn! Can you come and verify me?!”
“Not now son, I’m stuck in the washing machine!”
This might seem drastic but think of the great benefits to society! Such as…. uhm… uuuh. Hey! Look what I can do! 🤹
Privacy violations galore?
and users tapping out, completely. Build your libraries
My jedi powers sense and increase in VPN subscription sales.
but doesn’t this just feel like the path to making those age gated or otherwise inaccessible?
LoL no…
Laws like this are trojan horses for draconian data collection policies and a failure of every other metric. The “Think of the children” people do not understand technology or how to enforce their own laws. Anyone with the impetus to get around the changes these laws mandate will do so with a google search and ~30 min. worth of effort regardless of age or ability to wave a credit card at something.
So dumb lol
This will only hurt people working in adult entertainment as it will train Australians to steal it all.
Good grief. Who cares about porn?
Why not address government lobbying, for starters? Or how about the housing crisis/tax incentives that encourage wealth hoarding?
“We can’t tackle government lobbying, the lobbyists bribed us not to.”
Hold a photo of the PM up to the camera?
Prove my age?
No thanks
I think I’ll just wait until this thing… blows over
[ funk guitar plays ]
Ooh, baby!
Do you like it when I slip into my VPN?
I refuse to believe lawmakers around the world are genuinely convinced you can prevent children from accessing porn
Sure not all children will be that tech savvy to circumvent the limits, but then they could access it like I was shown porn for the first time before breadband: a random kid during a school trip had a porn video saved on his phone. Only a few phones had video capabilities at the time, now it’s commonplace.
So yeah I will never believe the good will of such bills
They all suddenly cared at the same time too, at around the same time every country started a massive push for fascism.
I wanna bet the rich will have some shell companies and lobby so they can anonymously access porn trough those.
If the porn sites just block the country from connecting with a notice as to why, will that piss people off enough to force them to change the law?
Pornhub does this in several US states. When you try to connect you get a message about why it’s blocked in your state. So far I don’t know of any state that has changed the law back.
Like they do for Texas and Utah and I’m sure a few other states.
Let’s all rub one out for our fallen brothers…
now all curious and unsurveilled teens can only watch porn on the darkweb
Where the good stuff is
Guys, guys! Relax!
Australia’s brilliant leaders aren’t stupid* !
Of course, when they finally get told that these magical things called VPNs can bypass the requirements, they’ll just ban VPNs!
*majority not included
VPN subscriptions are going to skyrocket
So what about Reddit and Lemmy’s nsfw parts? Will they so need age verification for the apps now too, even if you don’t access any of them?
