No silver bullet for online porn says Australian eSafety Commissioner Watch Now Australia is hoping to introduce some sort of protective capability to prevent those that are underage from viewing pornography or partaking in online gambling activities, with the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs having been charged with looking into the matter . The committee will probe “the potential benefits of further online age verification requirements, including to protect children from potential harm, and business and non-government organisations from reputation, operational and legal risks”. As of Tuesday morning, the committee has received 69 submissions mostly from individuals or organisations such as the Australian Christian Churches. Facing Senate Estimates on Tuesday morning, Australia’s eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant pointed to a similar project undertaken in the United Kingdom that has been abandoned, saying the nation would look to the successes and failures of that attempt. See also: Opinion: UK porn block collapses and I couldn’t be happier about it “Age verification has been a technology protection that’s been discussed widely — actually for about 12 years, when I was with Microsoft we tried to run an age verification pilot in Australia. It’s not a silver… Read full this story
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