Australia is introducing age checks for search engines like Google
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Re: Australia is introducing age checks for search engines like Google
#2Why not simply pass a law to limit company liability in the case that a minor sees something undesirable? Why shouldn’t the onus be on the parents to parent?
Re: Australia is introducing age checks for search engines like Google
#3Why not simply pass a law to limit company liability in the case that a minor sees something undesirable? Why shouldn’t the onus be on the parents to parent?
All of these laws (the US has some now) are designed to set up a censorship regime that can control speech or oppress undesirable groups (Project 2025 calls out LGBTQ+, for example).
The age verification also will inevitably let the authorities create a list of adults to persecute.
Re: Australia is introducing age checks for search engines like Google
#4Why not simply pass a law to limit company liability in the case that a minor sees something undesirable? Why shouldn’t the onus be on the parents to parent?
The general trend is not toward _more_ parental autonomy; it’s towards kids being property of the government and parents serving as keepers at the government’s pleasure.
Re: Australia is introducing age checks for search engines like Google
#5If Australia genuinely wanted to improve the lives of its children, it would first tackle the loopholes in its child support scheme [1].
But then again, as with Chat Control and other such schemes, “save the children” is used to usher in breaking of all citizens’ privacy. I bet Aus is insanely jealous of China’s mandatory ID checks on their superapps
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/08/single-paren...
Re: Australia is introducing age checks for search engines like Google
#6Big Mother is here to collect your metadata, sell it to data brokers, and put its opponents on watchlists.
Re: Australia is introducing age checks for search engines like Google
#7What about Yandex? If I wanted to see porn, I'd go to Yandex, not Bing or Google, because Yandex is the superior search engine for that kind of thing. If Yandex is unaffected, this age check is useless.
What about Marginalia? A small operation like Marginalia, if affected, may not have the ressource to implement age check. Is this some kind of regulation capture scheme?
Why don't you just shove a leash up my ass?
Re: Australia is introducing age checks for search engines like Google
#81788-2025 and still going strong...
Re: Australia is introducing age checks for search engines like Google
#9The sense of impotence in the comments is palpable.
What can we - the people - do to make our discontent heard?
Re: Australia is introducing age checks for search engines like Google
#10The sense of impotence in the comments is palpable. What can we - the people - do to make our discontent heard?
Australia has "the vote" for that.