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Big Brother is watching… porn?

7 November 2019

2:30 PM

7 November 2019

2:30 PM

Twenty years ago Australia was labelled as the ‘global village idiot’ by the president of the American Civil Liberties Union for our attempts to censor the internet. It looks like we may be about to take on that mantle again.

Peter Dutton’s Department of Home Affairs has suggested that in an attempt to protect children from seeing sexually explicit material online, we should force adult web sites to introduce facial recognition technology for their users as a form of age verification.

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