Australien fordert Internetunternehmen auf, bekannt zu geben, wie sie Kinder vom Anschauen von Pornografie abhalten wollen, andernfalls drohen ihnen Verhaltensregeln.
https://ca.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/australia-tells-internet-firms-to-say-how-they-will-stop-children-from-seeing-porn-3481214
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What’s wrong with the “I’m Over 18” check box? It’s worked fine all these years.
“We are going to suggest that parents parent their children.”
Cut off all porn to the island. Citizens will topple the government within months.
sure restrict children to only disney. oh wait…
Parents..?
As long as they can see people murder each other without problem, I don’t quite understand why they cannot see people fuck each other.
Oh come on, we grew up watching pron and we are perfectly normal psychopaths
I see two equally realistic options:
1) Banning households with children from using the internet;
2) Sorcery
OK so cut off the internet to Austrailia then i guess, Im done giving things up for the sake of someone elses GD ego baby they brought into existence.
Texas tried to require ID verification but PornHub just pulled out of Texas entirely lol
An opt put filter seems like the most palatable answer.
Filters aren’t perfect but they do cover the majority of it and of include web proxies and block most VPN protocols as part of it (SSL VPNs would be unaffected) it would make a big dent in the issue.
They literally can’t, just like TV can’t control a pay per view under certain circumstances. If there is an account with access to it near a teenager, they will get into it. And if they don’t get into that, they’ll read an undies magazine. And if they can’t get that, they’ll find a butternut squash. Quit trying to cut kids off from the world and let them learn. Don’t make them watch it or anything, just pretend not to notice when they do get into it. Make sure they know about all the risks that come with that kind of decision. Make sure they understand consent and how to say no. Boomers way of approaching this was “don’t have sex ever, you’re a bad person if you do” and then wonder why some of their kids never got married.
after you click on “yes” after youre asked whether you are 18 or not, a new pop will ask you “are you sure?”
double verification will show those pesky kids!
They have routers and family-friendly vpns specifically designed for these sites, isn’t there? I know a lot of the older generation probably just have no idea these exist.
There are so many resources available to put locks on what children can access online already.
God forbid parents actually parent instead of shoving an uncensored phone in their child’s face unmonitored.
“we will remove their parents from the internet” is the only logical answer in my mind.
Politicians are technology muppets! Someone needs to tell them that as gas companies are not responsible for stopping children from using the cooker and car manufacturers are not responsible for stopping children from driving.. so too ISPs are not responsible for how people use the internet. When did parents stop being responsible for what their children do? Any controls ISPs impose will be circumvented by children in hours. It takes one kid to show their mates now to use a VPN.
>SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia is giving the internet industry six months to come up with an enforceable code detailing how it will stop children seeing pornography and other inappropriate material online or face having a code imposed on it, a regulator said on Tuesday.
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>The eSafety Commissioner said it wrote to members of the online industry demanding a plan by Oct. 3 setting out how they plan to protect minors from seeing high-impact material before they are ready, also including themes of suicide and eating disorders.
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>The code should set standards for how app stores, websites including pornography and dating websites, search engines, social media platforms, chat services and even multi-player gaming platforms check that content is suitable for users, the commissioner said.
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>”Kids’ exposure to violent and extreme pornography is a major concern for many parents and carers, and they have a key role to play,” said Commissioner Julie Inman Grant in a statement.
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>”But it can’t all be on them. We also need industry to play their part by putting in some effective barriers,” she added.
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>The demand begins a second phase of industry codes overseen by the regulator which previously endorsed codes covering how internet companies stop the spread of terrorism or child sexual exploitation content.
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>Measures covered by the code protecting children from pornogrpahy could include age verification, default parental controls and software which blurs or filters unwanted sexual content, the regulator said.
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>A spokesperson for Google, a unit of Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL), said the company would work closely with the industry on the new code and a spokesperson for Facebook (NASDAQ:META) and Instagram owner Meta said the company continued to engage constructively with the eSafety commissioner.
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>Representatives of X, formerly Twitter, and app store provider Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) were not immediately available for comment.
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>A spokesperson for DIGI, an industry body which has most large internet companies as members and worked on the first round of codes, said it looked forward to continuing its engagement with government and the eSafety commissioner.
I’d be interested in what sort of “code” they think can stop people from accessing porn.
To play devils advocate…
I’ve been on the internet since 14,400k dialup, and you had to seek out porn then. Even right up to 10 or whatever years ago that was still (sort of) the case.
Now it’s fucking unavoidable. Everything is infested with bots and OF thirst traps pushing sexualised shit in your face, let alone all the awful propaganda and extremist/hate speech.
Yes govt blocking is probably futile, and yes it’s ultimately a parental responsibility, but many parents are irresponsible. If we could rely on everyone being good parents we wouldn’t need police or courts. The internet is our modern public square. There are rules for nudity and fucking yourself or each other in real world public squares for a reason. To pretend there is no argument for platform owners to take reasonable steps to curb this shit in places that are now seen as digital public squares is pretty ignorant.
This is from the eSafety Commissioner. It’s basically a federally appointed position who always trys to implement backdoors into companies under the guise of “think of the children”. They got forced to change anti-encyption legislation the other week after being told it was impossible so this is going to be another attempt at the same thing using a viewing porn angle instead of finding child porn.
They should tie it in with their piracy blockers. xD
Maybe Australia should just prevent teens from accessing social media or non registered websites.
Here comes the need to capture real time images for ensuring fair usage of internet.