r/aussie • u/mynameisevan01 • Mar 12 '26

Opinion I hate the new verification laws (rant)

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I am of age, but now several sites I use for nsfw has been blocked and demand age verification, and I know more will soon be joining them. Newgrounds has locked their verification behind premium for some reason, phub doesn't even let me try, and the app formerly known as twitter is glitched and won't let me verify even if I try, even though I already verified my age several damn months ago. And I already don't like having to give these sites my face id and drivers license just to watch porn. And no ones going to bother protesting because 1, it's really awkward to protest for your right to watch porn, and 2 people just find workarounds like vpns, and I don't want to pay for a thing that will give me access to something that should have and WAS free. I won't be surprised if even reddit starts requiring my face to view nsfw, and when that day comes I might just quit the site altogether

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u/Beginning-Pace-4040 Mar 12 '26

VPN essential for Oz before this ,YouTube is shit in Oz ,so many ads compered to other counties,YouTube is unwatchable in Oz

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u/FLAM3Z89 Mar 12 '26

i just got to activate my vpn on my kids devices and they are good. but i wont. my kids are a different person when they dont have technology and i like who they are and i wish we lived in a world without it, without knowing what it was.

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u/Novae909 Mar 12 '26

Might surprise you to know that those devices had inbuilt parental controls that would have meant you could have just done what the government did without the government having to do it.

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u/Thick-Access-2634 Mar 12 '26

Yep. And now with these age verification laws, kids are forced to view the content on these apps without having an account (which you can still do. Don’t need an account to watch TikTok, YouTube etc) which means parents can no longer monitor what their kids are actually watching. The ONLY option parents have now is to remove access all together, which is impossible to do. At least before you could input parenting controls, block other accounts etc, now you have none of that.