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Denial Takes Hold as Teens Circumvent Australian Age Verification

The failure of the Australian age verification laws has left advocates with the only tool left in the chest: denial.

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 24 points 5 hours ago

The outcomes were completely predictable. Teens were using sharpies and pictures of golden retrievers to defeat the age verification systems. Others utilized the more reliable VPN technology to defeat the censor walls. The technology became an absolute security and privacy nightmare following the Discord breach, the AgeGO scandal, and additional data leaks and breaches to boot.

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[–] notsure@fedia.io 15 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

...who could have seen this coming?...

[–] howmuchlonger@lemmy.org 2 points 3 hours ago

Not systemd

[–] XLE@piefed.social 16 points 7 hours ago

This is one zestily written article from a website I've never heard of before.

“If people want to vent like that, then so be it,” said Wipfli, a radio broadcaster known to Australians as Wippa, speaking from his home in Sydney.

Radio stations should mandate age verification /s