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Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn

posted by janrinok on Friday March 06 2020, @05:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the those-who-do-not-learn-from-the-past dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

The Australian government is investigating implementing age verification to access porn online following a failed UK age verification scheme. Children's charity eChildhood claims that "a third of students aged eight and under attempted to access online pornography in the past six months" including through advertising popups. No mention has been made about how effective the Australian plan will be and what exact measures may be taken to block access online.

The UK proposed making users visiting porn sites prove they were 18. The government abandoned the plan in October after a series of major technical issues.

The Australian report said three "crucial factors" needed to be sorted out to succeed where the UK scheme failed.

These included ensuring a level playing field for regulation, making age verification easy for consumers to use and raising public awareness of the need for age verification.

[...]Advocacy group Collective Shout said UK research found 28 per cent [of] children aged 11 to 12 had seen pornography online. In the 15 to 16 age group, the number jumped to 65 per cent.

The Internet routes around damage.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 06 2020, @06:21PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 06 2020, @06:21PM (#967569)

    But your ISP might not
    But your VPN might.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by fustakrakich on Friday March 06 2020, @06:43PM (4 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Friday March 06 2020, @06:43PM (#967577) Journal

    Blocking unauthorized VPN is already trivial. If it isn't in their whitelist, it will not go anywhere except to your local police station and intelligence agency. The search is for a medium that cannot be controlled by any authority or obstructed in any fashion. Then we can securely and reliably route around the damage.

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    La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 06 2020, @06:58PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 06 2020, @06:58PM (#967582)

      just use IP over avian carriers.

      • (Score: 5, Funny) by Gaaark on Saturday March 07 2020, @12:59PM (1 child)

        by Gaaark (41) on Saturday March 07 2020, @12:59PM (#967872) Journal

        Your pigeon was delicious, but the message is garbled...send again?

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    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by driverless on Sunday March 08 2020, @07:21AM

      by driverless (4770) on Sunday March 08 2020, @07:21AM (#968121)

      First, you'd have to see whether it's even a real problem or just fiction invented by anti-pr0n crusaders. Look at the claim:

      "a third of students aged eight and under attempted to access online pornography in the past six months"

      Yeah, because if there's one thing that every five-year-old is desperate to see on the Internet, it's Anal Angels XXVI. Come back with some data.