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Use of VPNs to bypass age checks on porn sites to be investigated by Australia’s eSafety watchdog (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 2 hours ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1256060/use-of-vpns-to-bypass-age-checks-on-porn-sites-to-be-investigated-by-australias-esafety

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[–] Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 28 points 2 hours ago

"Government trips over obvious clearly marked stumbling block, vows revenge against long dead builders."

[–] tremble5218@programming.dev 15 points 2 hours ago

This bullshit age verification doesn't solve anything. All it does is bring circumvention measures to users' attention and they go around it. Then these idiots wonder why it didn't work. It is a pointless, wasteful exercise.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 14 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Just fuck all the way off with this shit. I know this is Australia, but in the US many states are requiring ID verification for most mainstream porn sites. Sure there are others that work, but it shouldn't even be a thing in the first place.

[–] Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

I wonder if someone can start a lawsuit by stating ID are a direct constitutional violation to view porn, as it's protected speech.