Australia expands age verification checks to porn and explicit video games (www.independent.co.uk)
from throws_lemy@reddthat.com to world@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 10:22
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azimir@lemmy.ml on 09 Mar 10:35 next collapse

Strange that once you start having ways to make people identify themselves the government would expand it’s use! Who would have foreseen that?

Stern@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 10:50 next collapse

Like some sort of incline that slants downward covered with lubricant.

caschb@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 12:30 next collapse

a slithery ramp

Cethin@lemmy.zip on 10 Mar 09:30 next collapse

A slimy slant.

whelk@retrolemmy.com on 11 Mar 05:35 collapse

I’m using this phrase from now on

INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone on 11 Mar 06:17 collapse

A slobbered up shute perhaps?

Strider@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 12:09 next collapse

Surprised Pikachu!

Virtvirt588@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 17:49 collapse

That’s what ignorance is all about. They cared more about the disenfranchisement of their own people than the direct consequences. Ageism is what they wanted, and fascism is what they are going to get.

andybytes@programming.dev on 09 Mar 11:12 next collapse

but somehow these little shits get access to guns. we have to save the children translates to we are losing our arses in this war and we need to scare and control the masses

TheLunatickle@lemmy.zip on 09 Mar 16:29 next collapse

Which war is that exactly?

INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone on 11 Mar 06:25 collapse

Inb4 the culture war

pHr34kY@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 21:07 collapse

Huh? Australia has the world’s tightest gun laws.

Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works on 09 Mar 22:14 collapse

Not even close to being true.

They have a lot of farmland, and a lot of pests, so there’s a huge number of people who have a legitimate need for a firearm. There’s also a pretty strong recreational shooting community.

I don’t know why people think you can’t have guns in Australia, but it’s just not true.

redwattlebird@thelemmy.club on 10 Mar 01:11 next collapse

Yeh people can get guns but kids would have a really, really hard time getting access to one. Knives, easy, but guns? No.

INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone on 11 Mar 06:24 collapse

It’s quite true that you can own a gun, and yes it’s not all that hard, but there are not many little shits getting a hold of them. If any.

Its not even remotely comparable to the US for example.

Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works on 11 Mar 08:00 collapse

The US is a whole different world though, they have some gun accidents that would be incomprehensible where I live.

Our laws are that a firearm has to be in a locked safe when not in use, and the rules around transporting a firearm are pretty strict as well.

People just have loaded guns in their bedside cabinet in the states.

pHr34kY@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 11:24 next collapse

This is what the PH feed now looks like before login.

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/25ff2374-32db-4889-b3e6-2d33ffd45b7f.jpeg">

It’s bizarre to see shitty softcore clickbait on the front page.

GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone on 09 Mar 18:19 collapse

That looks exactly like YouTube

REDACTED@infosec.pub on 09 Mar 11:46 next collapse

Japan was a real life experiment for censoring access to porn. Why do countries want to follow a bad example? Start buying spy camera finders and protect your private areas in trains

panda_abyss@lemmy.ca on 09 Mar 13:18 next collapse

Ha-ha, the west would NEVER build trains you fool!

AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 14:52 collapse

What? We have lots of trains. They’re great!

panda_abyss@lemmy.ca on 10 Mar 15:18 collapse

I wanted to add after 1960 but it wasn’t as fun

tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip on 09 Mar 18:05 next collapse

What did japan do?

REDACTED@infosec.pub on 09 Mar 18:13 collapse

Generally developed countries do not censor or limit access to pornographic or adult material. Japan is pretty special case and a very good study in this regard, and they have quite a lot of creeps and creep porn, relatively speaking. People like to assume that banning nudity or violence from young minds is going to make humans grow up with less screwed up minds, but turns out the exact opposite thing happened. I remember my favourite childhood game being Postal 2. I’m fully against violence as a grown-up and it’s been 2 decades since I hit someone.

kittykillinit@lemy.lol on 09 Mar 20:54 next collapse

I don’t quite understand your argument. Did Japan ban (censor?) access to porn and that didn’t stop people from being creeps, or what?

REDACTED@infosec.pub on 09 Mar 21:35 collapse

EDIT: Forgot to answer your question lol - Yes, Japan has one of the strictest rules on pornography amongst developed countries.

My argument is quite long and hard to describe since English is my third language and this is essentially science.

Long story short, during development of brains, humans develop things they are going to enjoy doing, getting, etc that are often related to what was going on in your life at the time. So if you limit your child from enjoying candies, brain can incidentally develop lust towards sweets. It is believed that limiting your children from masturbating and seeing boobies during puberty can really screw him up as an adult. Psychologically and neurologically, scarcity can lead to development of desire. Intimate desires to see someone naked to the point you act on them (almost all men dream about seeing someone naked, but actually acting on your desires is whole another level of wanting) are a common thing in Japan.

I genuinely don’t know if my Postal 2 is a valid example, but I played some really screwed up games in my young years (10-15), I was fully aware that these things are screwed up, I knew the difference between right and wrong, and I grew up with that idea while exploring the fucked up side of the world, including browsing 4chan at the age of 13. Good times. Still, grew up as a loving human who’s anti-violence and anti-everything-evil

We came up with non-existing problem (kids have never had real problems with seeing nudity. See:Africa. They’re either disinterested or capable of processing what is going on without getting brain-damaged), tried to solve it, and created a real problem during this process.

tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip on 10 Mar 08:57 collapse

Japan has one of the strictest rules on pornography amongst developed countries

Just like, the mosaics? I’m not sure that was the reason for all the different weird porn genres Japan puts out.

REDACTED@infosec.pub on 10 Mar 10:13 collapse

Technically that’s not porn afaik and does not break their laws. One could argue they adapted, but I too don’t feel like claiming Hentai and others are a byproduct of censorship

tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip on 10 Mar 11:06 collapse

Yeah, so what I’m trying to figure out is why you think Japan has lots of strict rules about it. As far as I can tell, other than the blurry genitals it’s pretty much the same as any other developed country.

REDACTED@infosec.pub on 10 Mar 11:22 collapse

Wait, are you saying that censorship of genitals is not a censorship of porn? I never said “lots of”, I said strict. Censoring nudity is strict in my opinion.

tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip on 10 Mar 13:17 collapse

So back to the earlier question that if strict censorship led to “creep porn”, how do mosaics play into this? I agree that it’s strict and stupid to censor genitals, but what’s the connection here?

REDACTED@infosec.pub on 10 Mar 14:37 collapse

But I already explained that part in a lengthy comment about how scarcity leads to development of desires/lust, which can translate into weird porn categories like public voyeur or touching of private parts in public transport

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today on 11 Mar 06:06 collapse

japan is famous for just censor genitals, but not porn in general.

REDACTED@infosec.pub on 11 Mar 10:51 collapse

The genitals are censored in porn, not in real life. I get what you said, but…

If you get a document with redacted lines, then it’s a censored document.

lechekaflan@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 02:36 collapse

In Japan, the post-war government attempts at controlling access to porn was but a bizarre journey, some with long-reaching consequences.

etherphon@piefed.world on 09 Mar 12:56 next collapse

All this stuff to protect the kids, what can we do to protect ourselves from GREEDY OLD FUCKS WHO RUIN THE PLANET

GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone on 09 Mar 18:20 next collapse

All this stuff to protect the kids

None of this is to protect the kids

TrollTrollrolllol@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 15:34 collapse

Yep, it’s to protect the power.

WoodScientist@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 02:47 collapse

They own things. And those things are flammable.

NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 17:50 next collapse

How far away are we from political material about the opposing / opposition party requires an age verification check?

kittykillinit@lemy.lol on 09 Mar 20:52 collapse

Would be nice if we had to give our consent to be advertised to.

SabinStargem@lemmy.today on 10 Mar 02:51 next collapse

Australia, started as a prison colony, remains a prison colony.

KaChilde@sh.itjust.works on 10 Mar 11:21 next collapse

Ah, I can feel the desire for sin leaving my body. Thank you Australian government!

Fleur_@aussie.zone on 11 Mar 02:50 collapse

Coincidentally I can also feel the desire for crime entering my body…

Azrael@reddthat.com on 10 Mar 14:10 next collapse

Can people not just install a VPN?

MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world on 11 Mar 03:52 collapse

Hense why my VPN is auto set to NZ (now its time to add AUS to the block list)

Fleur_@aussie.zone on 11 Mar 02:52 collapse

We’re a nation founded by criminals, its time to return to our criminal roots