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Australians to face age checks from search engines

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Re: Australians to face age checks from search engines

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Minor’s accounts must also revoke “sign out” functionality in case they see some titties.

> However, users who are not logged in should also expect “default blurring of images of online pornography and high-impact violence material detected in search results”.

Re: Australians to face age checks from search engines

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Australia's been down this road before with the failed 2019 age verification bill and the Online Safety Act. The technical implementation challenges are enormous - from VPN circumvention to privacy risks of ID verification systems.

Well the age assurance is only for logged-in users, so they can just log out.

Re: Australians to face age checks from search engines

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As an australian citizen i'm all for it. Look at how the internet and social media has destroyed our current youth and their naivety and sense of emotional security. They all act like they're living in soviet russia at this point and have become so hard and jaded.

Better I give a little bit of pii than some kid grows up too early.

Would you be able to tell the difference if this policy came from a place of compassion?

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