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by hogepiyo 1587 days ago
Presumably does nothing in regards to social media? Kids easily come across weird enough stuff on YouTube these days (elsagate..) not to mention twitter / reddit being full of porn.

Encouraging tech illiterate people to enter ID / CC details on shady websites sounds like a disaster waiting to happen even when you ignore the other more glaring issues surrounding the government and these sort of things in the past

They already paid MindGeek to go ahead with this kind of thing once, so who knows if the government is actually serious or if a minister just saw it as a convenient time to kill two birds with one stone by wasting some public money and distracting from Boris' ongoing scandals

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> Encouraging tech illiterate people to enter ID / CC details on shady websites sounds like a disaster waiting to happen even when you ignore the other more glaring issues surrounding the government and these sort of things in the past

Most people who'd do this would be the ones voting for this crap, so maybe it's not so bad and essentially a case of natural selection?

When a bad roommate burns the house down, it's bit silly to celebrate their misfortune.