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Australia too. They've been playing with this for decades. The latest push is similar to the UK: age verification for porn and social media, but watch it expand once introduced.

The Establishment really don't like how they're not in control of what everyone hears or sees any more. It used to be so cozy for them.



In Australia it's going to be really easy to justify adding this as a requirement to video games: they already ban games by default and then selectively allow them. Bridging the two seems pretty easy to justify politically.

I guess liberal democracy's days are numbered.




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