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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: 0.214s | 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. shirro ◴[02 Jul 25 10:09 UTC] No.44441895[source]▶
Yes. As usual people commenting based on their biases instead of comprehending the text. This is a proposal made by predominantly US companies (a country that actually has mandatory proof of age to access digital services in several states) to a US born eSafety commissioner who previously worked for Microsoft, Adobe and Twitter.

Not really sure what this has to do with the Australian government or Australian people. We can't even properly tax these foreign companies fairly. If we did try to regulate them the US government would step in and play the victim despite a massively one sided balance of trade due to US services being shoved down our throats. We need to aggressively pursue digital sovereignty.