So looks like we won't be having an Australia VPN location for awhile,
Australia is quietly introducing 'unprecedented' age checks for search engines like Google
Australians will soon be subjected to mandatory age checks across the internet landscape, in what has been described as a huge and unprecedented change.
Search engines are next in line for the same controversial age-assurance technology behind the teen social media ban, and other parts of the internet are likely to follow suit.
At the end of June, Australia quietly introduced rules forcing companies such as Google and Microsoft to check the ages of logged-in users, in an effort to limit children's access to harmful content such as pornography.
Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-11/age-verification-search-engines/105516256
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DIGITAL GULAG:
“WONT SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!”
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And apparently the UE is studying this legislation as a reference for their own. The banning of freedom tools for our "protection" is a recurring and sad theme among authoritarian govs. Wonder if eventually conscious people will just move to more friendly legislations, fulfillying the William Rees-Mogg and James Dale Davidson forecast in The Sovereign Individual.
At this rate, soon VPNs won't be useful at all because the clearnet all around the world will be unusable. If you're not accessing onion services or I2P eepsites, you just won't get anything useful from the internet.
Bet those kids will somehow still be able to access porn 🙀
They can still watch it on #nostr!
Than we can shutdown the infernet 😀
wtf is going on on that Island...
It’s getting bad in Australia.