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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: 2) by chromas on Friday March 06 2020, @08:23PM (4 children)
Sounds expensive. At least here in the States, ISPs only tend to fuck their customers when it saves or makes them a dime. If they can somehow leverage DPI to make money then maybe. Otherwise, I bet most would pretend to do the bare minimum legally required, just like with copyright enforcement.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday March 06 2020, @08:36PM (2 children)
Yes, ISPs will do what is legally required. They are the enforcers. Essentially a potential blockade. A mesh can only do so much to get around them. It will have to be a monstrous swarm of millions
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 07 2020, @08:56AM (1 child)
Goodbye "common carrier" status, ISP. You are now liable for what your customers do.
That's like telling a phone company that if a criminal uses their phone system as part of an action to commit crime then the phone company is liable.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday March 07 2020, @06:24PM
They don't want common carrier status. They are agents of the state. They are not "liable", the are the policeman, the watch guard. They will receive bonuses for finding people and turning them in.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 07 2020, @09:38PM
They already sell your DNS lookups. Not too far a step to sell your Host header or SNI data.