Australia will not force adult websites to bring in age verification due to privacy and security concerns
Australia will not force adult websites to bring in age verification due to privacy and security concerns
The eSafety commissioner is to work with industry on a new code to educate parents about how to access filtering software and limit children’s access
Holy crap, an actually almost-sane decision?
69Good, parents can do their fucken job and monitor their kids. Stop offloading all the burden for your poor parenting onto the general public
24You act as if parents have time to be parents these days.. (queue the typical "well you shouldn't be having kids! the human race should just die out!")
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Good. Tell parents to use a DNS to monitor their childrens online behavior, also Sex Education is important
21Sex Education is important
Underrated comment imo
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As any sane legislator will do. Having to show your face or ID to watch porn is some Orwellian level government control. It's the parents job to regulate their children's internet activity.
21Excellent. Let's do the same in America, please. Stop KOSA!
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11This is the best summary I could come up with:
The federal government will not force adult websites to bring in age verification following concerns about privacy and the lack of maturity of the technology.
On Wednesday, the communications minister, Michelle Rowland, released the eSafety commissioner’s long-awaited roadmap for age verification for online pornographic material, which has been sitting with the government since March 2023.
The federal government has decided against forcing sites to bring in age verification technology, instead tasking the eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, to work with the industry to develop a new code to educate parents on how to access filtering software and limit children’s access to such material or sites that are not appropriate.
The roadmap said there was also a gap in sex education, particularly for LGBTQ+ people, with online pornography filling the place in many cases.
“The government supports this approach, and will work with the regulator to ensure the full and successful implementation of the Online Safety Act,” she said.
“While the government awaits the outcome of this process, the digital industry is on notice that we will not hesitate to take further action should it fail to keep children safe.”
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11Come on, we all know the real reason this is not being forced through. The politicians don't want to provide their ID to all the porn sites they visit.
6good, a fair and sensible decision, now lets just sit and wait for the conservative media to spin this in their usual ridiculous ways
3Couldn't they just set up a secure government site so only the government has your ID and only the porn site has your token verification? I think some country did that and it works fine without security issues because the government already has that info anyway
-19Please crawl back into the weird hole you crawled out of.
18Could? Yes, the issue isn't technical.
Should we suggest it? No.
18How about we don't do that instead.
12They should do this to replace giving our licence or passport numbers when signing up for things that actually need to verify who we are, like with banks. Would reduce the chance of our data being compromised in a breach.
It should not however be used for anything like social media or porn sites. Random sites do not need to know who we are.
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