After becoming the first country to ban under-16s from social media, Australia has now gone further by implementing one of the world’s most comprehensive age verification regimes for underage users, covering AI chatbots, app stores, online gaming, search engines, messaging services and pornography sites. The rules are already drawing criticism from some firms: Aylo, the owner of explicit sites including Pornhub, has responded by blocking Australian users from its platforms entirely.
On Monday, the country implemented the Age-Restricted Material Codes, requiring designated platforms to introduce age verification measures, such as facial age estimation, digital wallets and photo IDs, for materials such as high-impact violence, pornography, self-harm material and dangerous content such as suicide and disordered eating.
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17 hourseKaren at it again. (Insert “Won’t somebody please think of the children!!” Meme)
All the kids I know are simply laughing it off. It’s done absolutely nothing other than piss people off. But of course, as Australians tend to do, we roll over and take it.
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They’ll expand it to trains, busses and personal cars too and they won’t stop at your own front door.
- P1nkman@lemmy.worldEnglish16 hours
Please verify your ID through the camera before continuing your procreation. Defiance to comply will be met with any and all necessary force.
