Age Verified Login to Use Any Search Engine Required from End of 2025

GordonD on 02/07/2025 - 18:54

Its the old quote from the pre-Nazi days in Germany. It starts with "first they came for the socialists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist". I hope everyone is acquainted with history to know how it goes from there. And that it ends with "… and then they came for me."

Well, first they came for our kids, telling them the government would decide in their interests what they could see on social media. But I didn't speak out because I wasn't a kid. Now, we are told, the government's eSafety Commissioner has decided that from the end of this year, me and you, all us grownup adults who are just as able to decide what's good for us on the internet as the government, will, to be allowed to do an internet search, have to have an account with that search provider, which will require us to provide them with proof of identity, and be logged on, so the eSafety nazis can decide what we can see.

https://theconversation.com/australians-will-soon-need-their…

I can tell you, I won't be searching how to vote Labor, it'll be how not to.

And won't that database be great pickings for anyone to hack into and steal.

(Yes, I'm well aware of Godwin's Law, but sometimes …)

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  • 24
    I need the government to tell me what its safe for me to be allowed to see on the internet.
  • 290
    I don't!
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Comments

    • 91rs on 04/07/2025 - 14:10
      +2

      "e-safety commissioner" = activist.

    • Bluto Mindpretzel on 04/07/2025 - 17:55
      +3

      Because we are also now living under an oppressive regime. The frog is cooked.

  • haemolysis on 04/07/2025 - 18:49
    +2

    I’m not really majorly concerned about age verification in principle, so long as there’s no data retention, but unfortunately data retention is actually the law, so for that reason I am against it.

    Of course, such data retention laws introduced by the LNP, and yet OP is concerned about voting for Labor. Go figure.

  • TightAl on 04/07/2025 - 19:52
    +1

    Why are you talking about Germans? you should be talking about the Jews who are running the worlds media and forcing journalist to spew narratives.

  • eddyah on 04/07/2025 - 20:20
    +4

    BAHAHAHAHA

    Look at the poll results and COMPARE with all the idiots that voted here

    This is the reason we have shit rules put in place and awful people elected into positions of power. It's because more than half the population are IDIOTs.

    I saw this coming and if you didn't and voted 'oh yeah ban kids from social media good good' then you're the kind of pleb that needs warning labels on electrical appliances.

    • tenpercent on 05/07/2025 - 07:57
      +4

      How many times were people in that other thread told they are tinfoilers and there's no slippery slope?

  • Bubbalicious on 04/07/2025 - 20:56
    +1

    Someone once said to me: "when you come to Australia, you gotta remember you're doing it all wrong.

    You leave your children in Australia while you go over seas to work, and by time you come back the government would have raised your children, but you have to house and feed them, then the government can decide on child repayments for being away for so long, but if you have no children you become the child"

    I dunno what's worse the big beautiful bill or dystopia or Speeding youth on electric scooters at 60ks zooming by.

  • faustianOzbargainer on 05/07/2025 - 00:02
    -1

    F’ken hell….there’s a 15 minute city protest Facebook group or two out there somewhere that needs your wisdom. And look on the bright side cooker, soon you won’t have to deal with dumbass teens!

  • Darude Sandstorm on 05/07/2025 - 06:51

    And?
    Government already assign an ID number to us at Birth, almost all search engines, web browsers, website collect data.
    If you think you have any anonymity on the internet you’re wrong.
    But hey ’mUh VPn wIlL sAvE mE’
    Google isn’t handing over your search history to the government, even with a warrant they’re notorious for making it an extremely difficult process

    • Protractor on 05/07/2025 - 15:40

      Google also has every politicians and lobbyists search history in the vault.

  • Protractor on 05/07/2025 - 12:21

    Ppl seem to have wilfully forgotten the internet filter.
    And if you think the tech giant data whores aren't so deep into your existence, that the proposed sign in is an affront, to have out foiled yourselves.As if all those VPNs are 100% non porous to nefarious actors, when required.

  • Bubbalicious on 05/07/2025 - 14:17
    +1

    Don't forget the childcare worker in Melbourne he just weaponised this debate, now add extra hours of child care training that would take 30 minutes of clearance to 10 or so extra hours.

    This country has to much regulation red tape because of one crumb stain.

    Anyways a VPN on a fttp connection gaming will be hell.

    • tenpercent on 05/07/2025 - 20:04
      +1

      Don't forget the childcare worker in Melbourne he just weaponised this debate, now add extra hours of child care training that would take 30 minutes of clearance to 10 or so extra hours.

      What?

      • Bubbalicious on 06/07/2025 - 23:52

        Huh

        • tenpercent on 07/07/2025 - 09:56

          What childcare worker? How did he weaponise this debate?
          What does childcare training have to do with Orwellian internet surveillance?

  • trapper on 05/07/2025 - 15:44

    If I've had an account for more than 16 years isn't that proof enough lol

    • Darude Sandstorm on 05/07/2025 - 18:33

      How much did it cost you to buy an age boosted account?

      • tenpercent on 05/07/2025 - 20:05
        +1

        How much did it cost you to buy an age verified account?

  • Saver Scott on 05/07/2025 - 22:42
    +2

    Labor and the LNP made a public announcements before the election they would go down this road so I’m surprised to see so many people shocked that Labor’s going to follow through on it. Once this is in place, arrests will follow for anything negative citizens communicate about the current government and their policies. Your thoughts will not be your own and you will follow all government directions and applaud its leadership, otherwise you will be found guilty of hate speech or misinformation and sent to a re-think programme or gaol.

    • picklewizard on 06/07/2025 - 14:56
      -3

      Hahahaha absolute cooker nonsense

    • Protractor on 06/07/2025 - 21:00
      +1

      The govt serves corporations, not the ppl. Govts are the least of your problem. You're walking future fuel at best. We all are.

      • tenpercent on 07/07/2025 - 09:57

        The govt serves corporations, not the ppl

        This guy gets it

  • RolandWaites on 06/07/2025 - 09:07
    +2

    Then they'll come for the trade unionists - although that, to be honest, wouldn't really bother me too much

  • Bunnyburger on 06/07/2025 - 20:55

    Finally they came for the Gooners

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