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Australians to face age checks from search engines

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139 points stubish | 3 comments | 01 Jul 25 23:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.788s | source
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t0lo ◴[02 Jul 25 01:11 UTC] No.44439390[source]▶
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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1. CamperBob2 ◴[02 Jul 25 01:21 UTC] No.44439447[source]▶
Better I give a little bit of pii than some kid grows up too early.

And at no point does it ever occur to you to demand proof that measures such as this will have the desired effect... or, indeed, that the desired effect is indeed worth achieving at all.

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2. t0lo ◴[02 Jul 25 01:26 UTC] No.44439477[source]▶
Oh no the government and the isp know what the average non tech savvy australian is searching- this is unprecedented!

I am for anonymous tokens ideally but something is still better than nothing

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3. CamperBob2 ◴[02 Jul 25 01:27 UTC] No.44439489[source]▶
Oh no the government and the isp know what the average non tech savvy australian is searching- this is unprecedented!

You probably should have started your censorship campaign with the usual bugaboos -- comics, video games, porno mags -- and not with history books.