UK, Australia pass internet restrictions supposedly to protect kids from adult content

[Zkuq]

Mar1217 said:

Considering the history of the internet and how it has fared so far ... I'm only surprised about the fact that such regulations came in this late really.

Though the bogeyman of child protection is the obvious point waived by these conservatist groups, the real problem obviously comes from the eventual loss of actual privacy for these individuals and the amount of data that will likely not be used for the common good.

This here is 100% the problem with the UK approach. I don't mind age restrictions, but if you can't provide means to enforce those restrictions without endangering privacy, you're simply endangering privacy - and it's probably only going to get worse. But this certainly isn't about children, because there's probably a thousand things that are more impactful to children.

As for Australia, it's a sloppy law, but there's no deeper issue there as far as I can see. It includes too many services, so children will just learn to circumvent the restrictions if they want to. They should really have set standards for social media services at the threat of banning the services, but why bother when you can just take the easy route, sloppy and flawed as it might be?

Last edited by Zkuq - on 01 August 2025