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Australians to face age checks from search engines

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139 points stubish | 1 comments | 01 Jul 25 23:59 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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amaterasu ◴[02 Jul 25 02:22 UTC] No.44439723[source]▶
The co-leads on drafting the code are rather interesting:

> Drafting of the code was co-led by Digital Industry Group Inc. (DIGI), which was contacted for comment as it counts Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo among its members.

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1. fc417fc802 ◴[02 Jul 25 02:50 UTC] No.44439832[source]▶
Do you suppose this is born of a desire to more easily identify people, or primarily as a regulatory fence to prevent upstart competitors? Perhaps both?