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Age verification doesn’t work

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134 points salutis | 3 comments | 05 Sep 25 06:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.604s | source
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nomilk ◴[05 Sep 25 07:06 UTC] No.45135766[source]▶
The choice citizens have now is between an 'internet licence' (submit ID's to myriad sites), or an 'internet tax' (VPN).

Super annoying!

Given Australia doesn't even require Age Verification on porn sites (only on social media sites), the incentives hint this was strongly supported by legacy media (90% of Aussie media is owned by two companies, Newscorp and Nine Entertainment).

The internet licence will make it difficult for both authors and readers on alternative media platforms. And it will outright prohibit young people from getting information from non-permitted sources (of course, legacy sources are not affected - incidentally, they're probably more harmful than the prohibited sources). (I've long said, to try to think clearly after watching 'the news' is akin to trying to operate heavy machinery after consuming alcohol).

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1. Bender ◴[05 Sep 25 12:16 UTC] No.45137651[source]▶
an 'internet licence' (submit ID's to myriad sites), or an 'internet tax' (VPN).

Or learning one of the many non-http ways that people share porn and other things or people sharing among friends on small private or semi-private forums, chat servers or sharing porn in video games as many teens do. Beyond that is paying the slowness tax of tor hidden .onion sites which can be sped up by disabling 3 hops.

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2. 01HNNWZ0MV43FF ◴[05 Sep 25 19:19 UTC] No.45142510[source]▶
That is a tax
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3. Bender ◴[05 Sep 25 19:57 UTC] No.45142926[source]▶
That is a tax

For many it would be. I started with FTP and then SFTP so it's muscle memory for me and it's a lot faster than using a browser when used optimally with LFTP+SFTP+mirror, much like rsync but works with chroot SFTP-only. Groups can fully automate sharing their own collections with one another, entirely hands off no pun intended.