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I was mostly teasing. I do believe, as you seem to, that rights are eroded from the edges and that is one reason it is important to protect activities we disagree with. 'Protect the kids" is often used to deny rights to adults but kids are legitimately protected by the laws of society from a lot of predatory things. The social media ban doesn't stop adults from doing anything or make them do anything so it doesn't fit the case for sneaky control like cisa or gun control in the US or chat control in the EU. I don't think advertisers should be able to advertise directly to children. Teams of human psychology and behavior experts crafting the most addictive product available and being able to constantly live A/B test their newest ideas is bad for kids. It's bad for adults too but to each their own.
Besides have to submit ID documents or a scan of their faces to companies that routinely sell or leak that data.. Why do supporters of this law always just ignore that part?
Have yet to have a single account ask me for or do any of this.
Doesn't mean it's not happening
True, but you presented your scenario as a sweeping oppression occuring to all Australians in an exceedingly over the top hyperbolic statement.
What are you talking about? I made a single comment pointing out the reality that "age verification" means giving up private information to companies that has already resulted in many thousands of IDs and face photos being stolen. That's a fact
And you replying that it hasn't happened to you is an absolutely pointless thing to say, btw. Doesn't mean it isn't happening to others. Doesn't mean it won't happen to you
But you don't in Australia? The digital verification schemes are bad too but they can theoretically be done in a privacy respecting way.
I can't access that site with my VPN but I'm aware that the law technically doesn't say they need to use PII. But that's how websites are doing it anyway