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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.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday March 06 2020, @07:54PM (3 children)
The real travesty is that we're putting our illegal immigrants in concentration camps rather than shooting them on sight. When people would rather live in a concentration camp than in their home country, it speaks to what kind of people they are and why they should not be allowed to live here.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by gawdonblue on Friday March 06 2020, @09:34PM
That might be the most profound EF contribution ever. Deep sarcasm and a deep caring for humanity all in one post.
I wonder if he meant it?
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday March 06 2020, @11:10PM
Well, you could say that life on the inside of the imperial death star is much better than outside.
I'm always fascinated by the first batch of immigrants ragging on the following batch, and so on...
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 07 2020, @09:50AM
Who is "we" and "our" here?
Concentration camp definition is - a place where large numbers of people (such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, refugees, or the members of an ethnic or religious minority) are detained or confined under armed guard.
So, that describes Manus Island and that island in the middle of the ocean.
What else do you do? Thousands of people arrive on your shores. A lot you don't know where they came from. What diseases they have. Why they came. What their motives are. Sometimes they are genuine refugees who really do need shelter in another country and just want to live out their lives in peace without bullets flying overhead or being thrown from a building because they happen to be gay.
But.
There is a limit to resources. There is a limit for how much can be done and the time it can be done in. If a country allowed anyone in then they wouldn't have a country any more. It's sad, but it's true.
What do we do?