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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
2025-09-14 15:25:17 from 1 relay(s) 6 replies ↓
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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.
2025-09-14 15:54:10 from 1 relay(s) ↑ Parent Reply