I don’t understand, seriously is have any bad with kids access NSFW? in my country most kids marriage even 12-20 years old, and gov does no any to do for this, i know the NSFW content will be harm children, but if the parsents limit children to access NSFW content, this is fact to destoryed they freedom, the freedom above all
if you definitly want to block your kids to access NSFW content, the only way is talking with your kids
i close to 25 years and i never tried to alcohol, no parsents, i did myself, i just follow my body healthy (not lie, thats truth)
thats no make sense, if kids wants to access NSFW content, nobody can disallowed them, if kids have rights to live and die, they also have rights to access NSFW contents
its so simple to bypass, just mirror NSFW website to tor/i2p as well, or just download NSFW content and make a encryption zip upload to proton drive and share to kids
finally i just wan to tell you that limit kids to access NSFW is impossible and unreasonable, dont become a dictatorial
What about a Mastodon/Akkoma server that somebody is running, and then verifying yourself to get through. There is no system to require age verification to federate and it is unfeasible.
As with most internet websites, those platforms won’t really give a toss what laws the Australian government passes.
If we go with the intention of the authors of this bill, then this law will make kids simply “less safe” as they will be forced now to use those platforms which potentially have less resources in monitoring abuse and dealing with it.
All this law really is, is a trojan horse to get identity verification on mainstream platforms, nothing more.
Sorry but that kind of pessimism doesn’t help. It’s is poised to become normal ony if we don’t fight back. But fighting back has already worked, like in the EU.
It’s not pessimism it’s factual. I’m not saying that this should be the case or that it can’t be changed, but we have never been under as much surveillance as we are today. We need to do more since laws like this don’t receive nearly enough backlash.
Such a bill is pointless, honestly.
Most social media companies are in US, like Meta and X.
What can Australia or Turkey really do apart from banning the app?
To add, Brazil banning X due to refusals to comply with their demands is one example. Literally less than three months later, X decided to comply. (Additional source)
As soon as you try to prevent a part of the population (in this case children/adolescents) from viewing some kind of content, it will simply create the opposite tendency and encourage even more viewing (see the Streisand Effect).
It’s absurd and it’s taking the problem in the wrong direction (but this isn’t the first time the Australian government has taken totally liberticidal measures, remember the madness during the Covid crisis).
There’s no such thing as a magic wand (sorry for the pun). If there were a way of 100% preventing future adults from consuming pornography, it would have been universally adopted years ago.
The first effort must be made towards ourselves: accepting that we are human beings and that we can never control the life of another, including that of our children.
The second is patience and kindness, which can be summed up in one word: education.
Share knowledge in a healthy and honest way the effects of regular and excessive porn consumption (especially on a developing brain) without trying to exaggerate or minimize things.
Find out about the various scientific studies on the subject, and be wise when discussing them.
This will avoid falling into the trap of “I know everything better than you because I’m your father and you know nothing. That’s the way it is and shut up”.
I mean, who cares? Australia is far far away from (most of) us, so if this is what they really want, than just let them have it; let them taste their own stupidity. At least its not us who will suffer.
There is a way of preventing people from viewing certain sites. Its called firewall but this does not work nationwide (in democratic states). Fortunatelly may I add.
The problem is that other countries may follow. Just because a country far away from you does something, it doesn’t mean it won’t happen to your country. Especially in today’s connected world. And if what that country does is successful or at least is being attempted, other countries may get more bold to try it.
@Valynor this is censorship. Why these posts were deleted instead of being moved into new topic and tagged appriopriately?
May or may not, time will tell. In general, more & more countries transforms from privacy respecting ones into/towards privacy neglecting ones (left wing > right wing; more often than not extreme right), so …