cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36086180
Australians soon facing age checks when viewing adult websites [& search engines, social media, file sharing, etc, etc]
And all service providers/hosts around the world are expected to comply.
Here’s one summary of the looming access control measures.
Reading and understanding all this (and the linked sources) feels so… difficult, obtuse, complex.
This is a house entirely full of adults. I should be able to say - as account holder so a verified adult already - “there are no children accessing this shit” and then my ISP tells everyone to fuck off their age verification
Well ideally you stop this bullshit and actually rely on parents parenting but we’ll never do that shit
Agreed, since parental controls already exist. Kids are just a partial smokescreen I think.
Government wants to grandstand about preventing a very visible issue with kids online, but it’s a pretty sweet deal for gaining more surveillance powers. Social media platforms and search engine companies want to slurp up even more sensitive data.
This bullshit makes me so angry. I can dispense with everything else but I can’t do without an email address.
Something also mentioned storage so I’m going to have to find time and disk space to download decades of photos from Dropbox and Flickr.