No. Even in China It’s possible to bypass censorship.
There always will be a way to bypass this because It’s just too late : people already have access to this kind of content, they can also download it and share it offline between them.
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This is a dangerous idea that I see floating around.
The fact that you can bypass a restriction doesn’t mean it is not a restriction.
If you can drive over the speed limit, it doesn’t mean speed limit are useless. If you can get an abortion by traveling out of state / country, doesn’t mean abortion restrictions in your state aren’t impactful to many women.
Let’s take another example. During WW2 in Europe, even if you could get access to (non-propaganda) newspapers with great effort and risk, it didn’t mean the ban on news was impactless.
I could go on, and on. Freedom is the freedom to do something without restrictions of any kind.
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To put it more clearly:
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows.” - Winston Smith, 1984
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As an Australian, this is sad. This bill had bipartisan support from both of the major parties and they rushed this bill through while the crossbench mostly opposed it. This is while this country’s having more pressing issues that the government seems to be ignoring.
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You’re talking about a different thing (morality).
I’m just saying that whenever you even try to restrict people from accessing something, this will have the exact opposite effect.
Governments should stop to try to control everything, especially when it impacts privacy of everyone.
Instead, the government should set up awareness and education programs for parents. Sharing knowledge and raising awareness of the effects of regular pornography consumption among children and teenagers.
Knowledge is primordial.
My understanding is nobody actually even asked for this legislation. There hasn’t been widespread support from parents, mostly apathy, but that’s what you can expect from most Australians. Even the parent who’s child had her face stuck on a naked picture, by fellow school mates spoke agaisnt it:
To be honest I am thinking the whole thing is a plot to enforce identification on social media plain and simple and all the “for the kids” reasoning is a vehicle to push that.
Some have supposed that this particular law is actually aimed at competitors of News Corp (a media conglomerate here that owns majority of newspapers, and media) in an attempt to burden them with compliance regulation - which would not be beyond the realm of possibility. They’ve been trying to raise extra money for a while because people simply don’t want to buy newspapers anymore.
Australia should force Meta to pay for news, News Corp executive says
Of course doing a lot of government lobbying.
Edit: As for all the previous comments about children being exposed to NSFW content, those are irrelevant, because the law specifically excludes “messaging platforms”, eg chat rooms like telegram, discord etc. Until someone is able to tell me there’s no NSFW content on Discord, I refuse to believe that’s the purpose of this law.
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