[plagiarist]

> The legislation is vague on the technical details, although it does specifically mandate that platforms cannot use government-issued ID of any kind (including digital ID).

That's unexpectedly sane from a law like this. Hopefully they can figure out some zero-knowledge proof of age. (But then there's nothing stopping adults from creating and selling proof values to kids.)

[stephen_g]

That wasn't in the original bill and it was only amended to add that yesterday, because it wouldn't get past the Conservative (Liberal/National Party) whose votes they needed to ram it through Parliament with almost no scrutiny otherwise (the hastily drafted bill only having been introduced the Friday before the final sitting week of the year).

[plagiarist]

That's more of the sort of behavior one expects from legislators making broad surveillance apparatuses under guise of protecting children on the internet.

[triceratops]

> But then there's nothing stopping adults from creating and selling proof values to kids

That's also true for alcohol and tobacco.