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

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: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday March 06 2020, @07:56PM (2 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday March 06 2020, @07:56PM (#967610) Homepage

    Despite my over-the-top comment below, calling immigrant detention areas "concentration camps" is exactly the kind of ADL/SPLC "Oy Vey, dis iz anuddah shoah!" hysteria that turns political moderates anti-Semitic.

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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Friday March 06 2020, @08:52PM

    by Arik (4543) on Friday March 06 2020, @08:52PM (#967649) Journal
    To be fair, it seems a bit more applicable to Australia's Manus Island than to anything the US has done recently.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Pav on Sunday March 08 2020, @01:35PM

    by Pav (114) on Sunday March 08 2020, @01:35PM (#968165)

    The original "concentration camps" were created during the Boer War by the English to prevent the civilian population from supporting (willingly or not) the Boer troops... although many died of disease etc... this was not intended. The US/Japanese camps were the textbook definition of a concentration camp, as were the ones in Vietnam, as are the Australian camps. They are after all camps meant to concentrate a certain group. The German WWII camps started as concentration camps, but then became extermination/death camps.