Australia to require ID check/face check to access porn sites that are beholden to its legal system***
this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2026
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Now show some intestinal fortitude and do the same for alcohol advertising and gambling advertising. As a matter of fact apply strong ID checks & spending precommitments should keep the kids safe from gambling, their own and that of people around them.
This fiddling around the margins is performative theatre to distract the masses while they build the powers of the surveillance state.
Any statistics about the the development of VPN access numbers for Australia?
I have a maybe-conspiracy theory.
Israel, or Israeli citizens who were former IDF, have recently bought up a huge portion VPN companies (see outdated relationship with eachother here)
Now, conveniently as it happens, now age verification on porn sites (one of the top VPN drivers) is occurring all over the globe, in a lot of countries lobbied/bribed heavily by Israeli entities.
It is well documented that Israel has one of the largest and influential spy networks and they also have their hands in almost every mass surveillance company in the world (including having a "director of Zionist interests" at Facebook)
I think this is a big push to get everyone onto VPNs that they own to essentially route all internet traffic through a place where they can log and track all of it as they would benefit massively both financially and politically from that move.
Now block under-18s from accessing porn, and take it a step further, and ban any site (including X, including that one Lemmy instance that everyone defederated) for posting porn of under-18s.