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Sahwa@reddthat.com to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

Australia expands age verification checks to porn and explicit video games

www.independent.co.uk

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Australia expands age verification checks to porn and explicit video games

www.independent.co.uk

Sahwa@reddthat.com to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago
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    Strange that once you start having ways to make people identify themselves the government would expand it’s use! Who would have foreseen that?

    • Stern@lemmy.world
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      Like some sort of incline that slants downward covered with lubricant.

      • caschb@lemmy.world
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        a slithery ramp

      • Cethin@lemmy.zip
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        A slimy slant.

        • whelk@retrolemmy.com
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          I’m using this phrase from now on

      • INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone
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        A slobbered up shute perhaps?

    • Strider@lemmy.world
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      Surprised Pikachu!

    • Virtvirt588@lemmy.world
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      That’s what ignorance is all about. They cared more about the disenfranchisement of their own people than the direct consequences. Ageism is what they wanted, and fascism is what they are going to get.

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    This is what the PH feed now looks like before login.

    It’s bizarre to see shitty softcore clickbait on the front page.

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      deleted by creator

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    • GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      All this stuff to protect the kids

      None of this is to protect the kids

      • TrollTrollrolllol@lemmy.world
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        Yep, it’s to protect the power.

    • WoodScientist@lemmy.worldBanned
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      They own things. And those things are flammable.

  • SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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    Australia, started as a prison colony, remains a prison colony.

  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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    How far away are we from political material about the opposing / opposition party requires an age verification check?

    • kittykillinit@lemy.lolBanned
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      Would be nice if we had to give our consent to be advertised to.

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    Ah, I can feel the desire for sin leaving my body. Thank you Australian government!

  • andybytes@programming.devBanned
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    but somehow these little shits get access to guns. we have to save the children translates to we are losing our arses in this war and we need to scare and control the masses

    • pHr34kY@lemmy.world
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      Huh? Australia has the world’s tightest gun laws.

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        Not even close to being true.

        They have a lot of farmland, and a lot of pests, so there’s a huge number of people who have a legitimate need for a firearm. There’s also a pretty strong recreational shooting community.

        I don’t know why people think you can’t have guns in Australia, but it’s just not true.

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          Yeh people can get guns but kids would have a really, really hard time getting access to one. Knives, easy, but guns? No.

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          It’s quite true that you can own a gun, and yes it’s not all that hard, but there are not many little shits getting a hold of them. If any.

          Its not even remotely comparable to the US for example.

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            The US is a whole different world though, they have some gun accidents that would be incomprehensible where I live.

            Our laws are that a firearm has to be in a locked safe when not in use, and the rules around transporting a firearm are pretty strict as well.

            People just have loaded guns in their bedside cabinet in the states.

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      Which war is that exactly?

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        Inb4 the culture war

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    Can people not just install a VPN?

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      Hense why my VPN is auto set to NZ (now its time to add AUS to the block list)

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