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ethan_smith ◴[02 Jul 25 01:08 UTC] No.44439379[source]▶

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.

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frollogaston ◴[02 Jul 25 01:09 UTC] No.44439380[source]▶

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

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1. bigfatkitten ◴[02 Jul 25 01:12 UTC] No.44439394[source]▶

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You’d have a hard time finding a 12+ year old who doesn’t know what Incognito mode in Chrome is for.

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