2025-07-12
🚨🚨🚨 ‘To verify users’ ages, search engines could use methods such as credit card checks, photo ID, facial age estimation, digital ID, or parental vouching - though companies haven't confirmed which systems they'll adopt.' Welcome to Australia, the land of censorship... [image]
ABC
At the end of June, Australia quietly introduced rules forcing search engine companies such as Google and Microsoft to check the ages of logged-in users
We're watching the death of an open, anonymous internet, and the gradual takeover of information online by the state — under the guise of protecting children. Andrew Starr / @ajsta...