It only causes inconvenience for herself and the cashier. It doesn't effect the guy behind her even slightly.
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They could, we'd just need to hand over even more of our privacy and rights.
Which was always the plan.
"What's the difference?" - USA
Those solutions don't really work if you need an ID to connect to the internet. Can't access your VPN without internet access, can't get on a P2P or usenet without accessing the internet first.
And porn can still be purchased or shared on bootleg DVDs.
They'd definitely prefer this, that gives them a physical media that they can track and the police can seize.
Plus it'll give them more excuses to search through people's belongings.
In order for social media sites to actually be able to enforce this law it's the only thing that would work. They might feel pressured to make deals with the internet service providers to actually implement this kind of ID check for internet connections.
If they don't, it's only a matter of time until some country does pass such a law.
And the social media sites, in the interest of complying with the law, might make deals with the internet service providers to actually put an ID check on every internet connection. This isn't impossible.
Even if they don't, once legislators realize their law didn't fix the problem they can always pass new legislations.
My point is that this isn't impossible.
One is purchasing a month to month phone plan with cash for example
They could require you to show an ID to purchase a phone.
Or finding open wifi networks
Open wifi networks certainly wouldn't provide an ID to connect, which would mean they couldn't be used to access social media.
This is not an unsolvable problem. The question is if Australia is willing to piss everyone off to actually do it.
They could require an ID to connect to the internet.
I really hate the kind of liberal reform where they recognize that something is obviously bad, but instead of banning it they just require that the business discloses the information. Heaven forbid we restrain businesses or interfere in the market in any way!
And incredibly the only other party thinks that forcing them to disclose is too much regulation. 🤡
If you have to use a government ID to access the internet I don't think there'll be a way to subvert it. The tech fixes like face recognition and age inference can probably be spoofed, but IDs seem rock solid unless you steal someone else's ID.
These could include government IDs, face or voice recognition, or so-called "age inference", which analyses online behaviour and interactions to estimate a person's age.
Surely this won't be used by the government to monitor internet usage!
When he dies they will replace him with AI and the Supreme Court will rule it constitutional.