For years, politicians from across the political spectrum insisted the Online Safety Act would focus solely on illegal content without threatening free expression. But from the moment its age-verification duties took effect on 25 July, that reassurance began to unravel.
  • OutlierBlue@lemmy.caEnglish
    54·
    5 months ago

    Remember in 2012 how everyone was horrified when an authoritarian government like China forced everyone to disclose their identities to get online so they could track and censor them?

    Now the authoritarians are here.

  • Madagaskar_sky@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    5 months ago

    And so it begins, ‘saving the children’.

    They’re moving fast, it’s not even been a month since this law came into force.

  • DreamButt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    Is Lemmy generally against wanting to regulate children online? Most people I’ve spoken with are for it in concept but aren’t sure how to implement it

    • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      15·
      5 months ago

      If you’re worried about how the Internet affects children, be a parent and restrict your own child. What you think kids should be able to access has nothing to do with my rights to engage in free speech online, including my right to engage anonymously without putting doxxing material in a database just waiting to be compromised. Parent your own children, don’t try to make government parent other people’s children.