Taking inspiration from the United Kingdom’s deeds with porn verification, Australia might be following suit as their House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs are considering age verification for not only porn but online gambling in addition.
The topic was brought to discussion by Senator Anne Ruston (Minister for Families and Social Services) and Paul Fletcher (Minister for Communications, Cyber Safety, and the Arts), with one of the purposes of the age verification apparently being to keep children online “safe”.
The terms of reference regarding this move state that the committee will “look into the potential benefits of further online age verification requirements, including to protect children from potential harm, and business and non-government organizations from reputation, operational and legal risks”.
Supposedly, the House will be investigating the potential downsides to the age verification as well, such as economic impact, privacy breeches, impact on freedom of expression, false assurance and whether or not this would be encroaching into “unregulated/illegal environments or to other legal forms of these activities”.
The UK’s previously announced porn age verification checks (which were indicated in the the terms of reference) were to be implemented on July 15th but this did not come to pass – supposedly due to its inability to comply with EU standards.
Australia’s committee will provide an update on the subject come October 25th.
It looks like Australia’s at it again with their stupid/pointless pornography laws.
Good luck enforcing this one ‘stralia. Like the law that would give the government a backdoor for every code encryption. Yeah. Good luck enforcing that and expecting people will go along and nobody will abuse or take advantage of the system or anything like that…
Australia did the same s♥♥t with guns in the 80’s after a few minor incidents. Their left wing parliament is insane, in particular, a certain Tony Smith.
If you live there, get the hell out while you’re still able.
Guns? You must be an American. You enjoy all those school shootings?
Yes actually, thins out retards like you.
Have you ever wondering why most of the shooting that cover in the news happened in the so called “gun free zone” but not on gun club, gun store, police station, or military base. 😉
Here fun fact: Mexico have very strict gun law and only have ONE gun store in the entire country. Does it stop people killing each other with guns? No.
bitchute.com/video/MxlUTXIKNu8o/
Crazy people are going to murder others no matter what you ban.
Do you have a point somewhere? If not, f♥♥k off. I’m keeping my rights, my ‘scary’ black rifles, and my games.
Depends. What’s the murder rate per capita in YOUR country? Because I guarantee it’s more than within the USA.
Australia is way under the US with murder rates. The only stats I could find for both countries in the same year is the 2012 stats. These are murders per 100,000 people. Aus is at 1.1, and the US is at 4.7. That’s over four times the amount of murders.
Holy s♥♥t though. Check out Louisiana. That state is fucking insane for the amount of murders compared to the rest of the US.
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Heart disease outnumbers gun deaths in the US. Try again.
I remember watched some old documentary about that the funny part was gun crimes blow up after they banned gun because criminals know that most people don’t have gun to so criminals can rob people with ease.
reminder that port arthur massacre was an inside job to get rid of guns, the shooter was literally fucking retarded its impossible for him to be able to kill that many people with that many clean shots
You gotta give props to the Australian government sponsored mass media of hysteria and how they spinned the narrative for gun confiscation propaganda 24/7 with not one voice of reason questioning why everyone else has to give up their guns because of one Mk-ultra (((retard))). Aussiecucks didn’t even fight back, gave up their arms and nodded sheepishly.
Muricucks didn’t fight back neither, with the Unibomber, a proven genius who became unhinged after his MK Ultra experiments.
Even made a few movies to whitewash that fact.
Wow you people are fucking stupid – inside job? like your 9/11 bullshit? Smoke the other one retard…
Real people actually died, the whole government-inside-job-angle to ban guns is bullshit and has been for decades. That idea was only invented recently because one butt-hurt politician got caught out trying to weaken gun laws and went slithering to the NRA for help doing it.
@15:06 Clean shots? wow you must be one of those ‘special’ kinds of stupid – I’d bet anything you weren’t even born when this took place…
No wonder everyone hates good ol’ US of A – filled to the brim with idiots…
Mass shooter wannabe
Not only that, they also stole their cousin’s legally owned guns too. Directly assisted, with the indirect help of edgy alt-right little shits from Florida, just so Freedumbs from Florida can claim the most “free” title..
For parents who are concerned about internet security the solution is simple, it only allows internet access for children with parents present, like putting the computer in the living room, or anywhere where it is easier to be seen, or check your browsing history periodically, block websites, and more.
I do not like the idea of the government controlling the education of children as if the parents of these children were treated only as government babysitters and only the government had the right to educate their children about false freedom by controlling the influences and social changes of society. .
The (((governments))) will take every opportunity to control every aspect of peoples lives with their morally altruistic motives of “protecting” children while also push and normalize lgbt degeneracy and sodomy that threatens to poison the children.
What are you crazy, parents taking responsability for their children… ugh these people
Pornography laws have no basis in fact. There has been little to no research into the effects on what society deems “adult” or “pornographic” material on youth. What research has been conducted has shown the effects to be negligible to positive. Check out the book, “Harmful to Minors.” The data in it is getting old, but decades of preceding data still hold true that kids need is more frank and transparent sexual education, not censorship. Maybe they should focus on improving education instead of adding regulations in an area that has shown zero threat to anyone ever.
China is a perfect example of this. Since pornography and sex education is basically illegal by the time these kids become adults they don’t even know how to have sex.
Like the story about the married couple having anal sex for years and wondering why the woman won’t get pregnant.
“Honey that’s wrong hole, that’s my pee-hole.”
“Oh, sorry. You’re right.” *aim at poop-hole*
LOL!
We swear we aren’t doing to track you and use it for future blackmail material. It’s for the children.
Deepfakes , data collection and audio manipulation is the cryptocurrency of the future.
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For now, don’t give currency to words like “deepfakes”, since normies will interpret it as being related to the deep web when in reality it isn’t. Perhaps those who coined the term want to associate fake porn with the deep web to build social stigma around it. The “deep web” may be the only place people will find privacy in the future, so it makes sense that certain groups try to paint it as pure evil.
Just call it what it is “fake porn”.
Great use of time and money. As we all know, everyone is 100% honest when filling out online age requirements
I believe they would require the porn sites to have some stronger means of verification, like using a credit card or whatever. In any case something that would inevitably also mean the porn sites would know your real identity. That’s surely something every visitor of porn sites desires.