c/world · by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz · 166d

Porn websites begin blocking Australian users as deadline for age verification looms

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/06/porn-websites-begin-blocking-australian-users-as-deadline-for-age-verification-compliance-looms

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8 Comments

wuffah@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 166d (4 replies)

Why is it that the US can bomb a school full of children in Iran, but we can’t watch porn?

Why is horrifically evil violence okay, but sex isn’t?

applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 166d (1 reply)

Because puritanical religious nutjobs get off on controlling people's sex lives.

Insekticus@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 166d

Global religious extremism is on the rise, and the most underrated extremist force is the Christofascist movements. They're an unmitigated disaster and a risk to global order and stability and whose clerical leaders rape and abuse children.

If I were religious, I'd call the forces evil and demonic, but anyone with half a brain realises these people are just deeply greedy, sadistic, and narcissistic control freaks.

orange_narange@lemmy.org · 7 pts · 166d

Now that you say that, have you ever noticed how some movies censor nipples with blood and guts? It is ok to look at gore buy it is bad if you touch your genitals.

skrlet13@feddit.cl · 1 pts · 130d

USA hates that "make love, not war" mantra

War is its main business dammit!

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 20 pts · 166d

What a stupid policy choice

tal@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 166d

When the UK last year implemented a similar age verification system for adult sites, in the first week of it launching, four of the top five downloaded apps in the Apple app store were virtual private network (VPN) apps, with Proton reporting an 1,800% increase in downloads of its VPN app.

VPNs allow users to appear to sites that they’re in another location, which could bypass age check requirements in Australia.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today+5-y&geo=AU&q=vpn&hl=en-US

I don't have data on VPN signups in Australia, but I see that Google searches for VPNs have abruptly spiked among Australians.

EDIT: Might need to reload the page a few times if the graph doesn't show up. It's giving me an error about half the time.

thesohoriots@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 166d

Oh naur me norks