Australians to face age checks on porn sites from March

Another (deliberately) flawed implementation of control of 'what we think is right for you', buy the Nanny State of Australia:

New adult content rules will also apply to AI bots, app stores.

Warning: This story contains references to sexual content, self-harm, and disordered eating.

Australians will need to prove they are over the age of 18 when accessing pornographic websites from 9 March 2026, under new industry codes registered Tuesday by the eSafety Commissioner.

Services hosting online porn must provide “appropriate age assurance measures” when the codes take effect in six months’ time, or face potential civil penalties from the regulator in the millions of dollars.

Similar age assurance technologies will be used by platforms to prevent under-16s from accessing social media under the government’s forthcoming ban in December, and to check a user’s age when they are logged into a search engine from later that same month.

Stricter rules on accessing online pornography have been floated by governments for several years, but age assurance technologies were not previously considered accurate enough by lawmakers and regulators.

Such technologies can include age verification systems, which typically rely on government documents or ID; age estimation systems, which use biometrics; and age inference systems, which use online activity or account data to infer a person’s age.

The federal government commissioned a trial of such technologies in 2024, which found age assurance could be done effectively in Australia despite no solution being infallible and some systems raising privacy and data retention concerns.

The new industry codes required service providers to not use or share Australians’ personal information in a way which would breach privacy laws, eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said.

“In determining appropriate age assurance measures to take under any code, services are also required to consider if those measures are compliant with privacy laws and whether the impact on user privacy is proportionate to the safety objectives,” she added.

Any company covered by the new codes “must also take appropriate steps to test and monitor the effectiveness of its age assurance and access control measures over time", according to the new rules.

Age checks to access online porn have already been implemented for sites accessed in the United Kingdom, in some European Union nations, and in many jurisdictions in the United States.

Canadian pornography giant Aylo — which runs major sites such as Pornhub and YouPorn — introduced age assurance methods in the UK in July to comply with new online safety laws in that country, including “email-based age estimation, credit card age checks, mobile network operator age checks and open banking, and, as of August 5, Google Wallet”, according to the company.

However, some UK residents have used Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and facial recognition tricks to get around the new age checks.

eSafety goes after ‘lawful but awful’ material

The six new codes registered by Australia's eSafety Commissioner were co-developed with industry organisations and aimed to protect children from exposure to a range of “lawful but awful” content, including pornography, self-harm, and high-impact violence, Inman Grant said.

Development of the codes began in July 2024 and involved several industry groups: the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA), the Communications Alliance, the Consumer Electronic Suppliers Association, Digital Industry Group Inc. (DIGI), and the Interactive Games and Entertainment Association (IGEA).

Inman Grant said her office would be responsible for enforcing the codes “to protect children from accidental exposure to content they are not cognitively ready to process and certainly cannot ‘unsee’”.

“We know this is already happening to kids from our own research, with one in three young people telling us that their first encounter with pornography was before the age of 13,” she said.

“And this exposure was ‘frequent, accidental, unavoidable and unwelcome’, with many describing this exposure as being disturbing and ‘in your face’."

_{Age checks have already been implemented for pornographic sites accessed in the UK, some EU countries, and many US states. Image: Shutterstock}

DIGI, which counts the likes of Google, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, TikTok, and Twitch among its members, said the new codes were “a major milestone in creating a safer online environment for all Australians”.

"The registration of the codes shows what can be achieved when industry and government work together on safeguarding the community against online harms,” said Dr Jennifer Duxbury, DIGI’s director of policy, regulatory affairs, and research.

"It's vital the rules that apply to the online world keep pace with changes in the threat landscape.”

Australia's adult entertainment association Eros was contacted for comment.

AI chatbots, app stores told to protect kids

To prevent children from accessing adult content on other platforms, the new codes would also apply to AI chatbots, app stores, hardware manufacturers, social media services, and other designated internet services, Inman Grant said.

“Under these new codes, app stores will have to make sure that apps are appropriately rated and that there are appropriate age assurance measures before permitting users to download or purchase apps rated as 18+,” she said.

The commissioner said she was concerned by “a recent proliferation” of unregulated AI companion chatbots — some of which have allegedly engaged in sexually explicit conversations with minors, or encouraged self-harm or disordered eating.

“As with other forms of online pornography, there is a danger that excessive, sexualised engagement with AI companions could interfere with children’s social and emotional development, setting up misguided or harmful beliefs and patterns that are damaging to individuals or relationships in real life,” Inman Grant said.

“We’ve also seen recent reports of where AI chatbots have allegedly encouraged suicidal ideation and self-harm in conversations with kids with tragic consequences.”

US company OpenAI recently pledged to make further improvements to its ChatGPT service following the death of a teenager who discussed much of his life with the popular AI chatbot.

Source: ia.acs.org.au

Age Verification At Operating System Level, i.e. Windows/Linux

WTF? The authorities are enacting a fascist/Nazi/totalitarian online world and it’s coming to your state or colony soon.

In California and Colorado, law is being put in place that if operating system manufacturers like Microsoft and the various organisations that distribute their own version of Linux want to do business there, they must have an age verification option prior to the user using the operating system, even if the PC is in a closed system, meaning not connected to the internet.

The action for age verification is so that the children (of the cannon fodder) are allegedly protected from harm when interacting with others on the internet, but the real reason is to officially catalogue every person on the internet to their real identity in order to censor ‘free speech’ and to  later punish them for whatever the governments see fit at a later time, e.g. for not liking the colour blue if the government see this as being ‘offensive’.

Operating systems do NOT cause harm to underage children, period, where if there is any allegation that they do, where is the 'white paper' on this topic?

This action just shows the sociopathic or retarded mentality of the lawmakers that are enacting these types of laws.

If there was truly an action to protect the children, then the victims the 'Epstein Files', would have their ('alleged') assailants brought before the courts and incarcerated.

What an absolute clown show!

This is just another farce enacted by the authorities to silence the masses, in order to control and force whatever narrative governments desire.

For more information on this topic see articles:

https://www.pcmag.com/news/colorado-lawmakers-push-for-age-verification-at-the-operating-system-level

https://itsfoss.com/news/colorado-age-attestation-bill/

They ask us to complete ID Verification. 1 billion personal/ID information is leaked by IDMerit

This is huge news, that the time of this post, it's not covered by Australia's mainstream media.

For your benefit, realistically do not rely on Information Technology news by Australian 'news' outlets, but rather refer to trusted specific sources.

Approximately 12 million Australians are affected.

What Personal Data Was Leaked?

Because IDMerit is an AI-powered KYC (Know Your Customer, a government requirement fro U.S. telecomms) provider, the data it collects is incredibly sensitive. The unsecured 1-terabyte database didn't just leak passwords—it leaked the core personal identifiers used for your financial and digital life. The following structured data was left open for anyone to download:

• Full names

• Addresses

• Post codes

• Dates of birth

• National IDs

• Phone numbers

• Genders

• Email addresses

• Telco metadata

• Breach status and social profile annotations

The last data point – breach status and social profile annotations – could refer to a database identifier indicating whether the data originated from a data breach or a leaked database. However, at this point, the true meaning of the data point is unclear. The team noted that this specific data point was present only in some regions.

“At this scale, downstream risks include account takeovers, targeted phishing, credit fraud, SIM swaps, and long-tail privacy harms. Industry-wide, the case underlines how third-party identity vendors have become critical infrastructure and can become single points of catastrophic failure,” our team explained.

See more:
https://cybernews.com/security/global-data-leak-exposes-billion-records/

Secret Control Room In Victoria's Parliament House

MANY of the colony’s party officials that are in office are not elected democratically by the people, but rather decided in house which one of them would be a better corporate whore.

With regards to Victoria, it is truly irrelevant which premier puppet is on display whether it’s Labor’s Jacinta Allan, Daniel Andrews or the Liberals’ Denis Napthine or ‘Ted’ Ballieu, the most important room in the building is the one the politicians or staff aren’t allowed to talk about that is the ‘blue room’.

This masthead was informed under the condition of anonymity, that what is in store for Victoria over a period that exceeds the tenure of a premier is decided by ‘faceless men’, the men that truly run the nation and states.

Nothing gets done unless it's passed by members of the 'blue room', said the source.

It is what they decide that happens not only within the state but what is coordinated by their brethren in similar positions in other states is what will be executed over the years that follow.

Whether it’s new law they have waiting, for a particular trigger moment to occur that will oppress the people to town planning or infrastructure projects and who will benefit from the falsified tenders to immigration arrivals, even though they are a federal task, they still are discussed at state level.

The 'housing crisis' is a deliberate political move to cause turmoil and financial harm for the good people of Australia that will have a generational effect.

The people are truly conned if they believe that they have voted for a person that will serve them.

These politicians only take actions that are of benefit to them, where one of the goals is to fleece from the public purse as much as possible, where even if whatever is classified as ‘too much’ will not incur any consequences.

Australia’s governments are some of the most corrupt in the world, where currently Victoria’s ‘Big Build’ is just one example of this government supported fraud.

Privacy and Security Warning: myki system bank card upgrade

Australia’s governments are all about creating more customers.

Creating more 'consumers' and importing more useless eaters, where that subject is beyond the scope of this article.

What could go 'wrong', right?

Well, banks and financial institutions do factually commit offences and breach various Australian law, but they’re allowed to get away with it as seen within the Royal Commission, which at the end of the day was a ‘money for mates’ farce at the expense of the Australian Taxpayers.

Another action banks do, is aggregate your information, package it up, and sell it many times over.

If you ‘tap on’ and ‘tap off’ with your bank issued credit or debit card, then the bank will know your movements, package up this data and again, sell it many times over.

If you truly value your privacy, and therefore security you will not use your card or even phone with its virtual card for myki related travel.

In any event, that will just be another database which hackers will be able to eventually access and use it for whatever purpose they see fit.

The question is not ‘if’ but rather ‘when’ will your data get hacked?

How to determine Australian currency is real

Middle Eastern criminal syndicates from Melbourne and Sydney have been involved in the production of counterfeit currency for quite some time, and it seems that there is no stopping them.

Unfortunately the authorities are not doing enough, where the good people are ultimately victims of this highly organised criminal venture.

The new generation of Australian notes shown in the illustration below show that under UV (Ultra Violet) light features birds and flora which currently cannot be replicated in counterfeit currency.

Also, the other side of the notes shows their year of production under UV light as shown in the photo below.

See also a 'counterfeit detection guide' document from the Reserve Bank of Australia which contains information on the first generation of polymer notes:

Facebook wants your biometrics, DON’T give it to them!

The reality is that Meta cannot be trusted with your private and confidential information and now especially with your bio-metrics.

On occasions. Zuckerberg has provided false information to [US] Congress, with ZERO consequences.

Why?

Is it because he’s in bed with the Five Eyes ‘Anglo-sphere’ surveillance network?

He has provided false information about your data, also abusing it, therefore he can no longer be trusted with it, yet too many people turn a blind eye to this.

He wants/needs you to take a selfie or video, yet he himself covers up his own laptop camera.

Mark Zuckerberg caught out with tape over his laptop

Your selfie picture or short video will feed his A.I. platform and your ‘likeness’ will go to places where you’re not told about, as usual.

And on whichever database your data goes to, that database may get hacked given enough resources.

Just say you haven't got a laptop, where you only use a Personal Computer with no camera, for privacy & security purposes, where Zuckerberg is discriminating against you, as this is the only method he is accepting, meaning there is no alternative.

Do you STILL want to participate in a discriminatory platform?

In short, we do not recommend giving your bio-metric data to any platform, especially Meta which is run by a ‘dishonourable’ person, to put it very nicely. 

Victoria Police search powers unlawful! Corrupt police & government MUST be prosecuted!

Briefly,

In their respective states and territories, Australians no longer live in a democracy but rather a corrupt police state that is unlawfully enabled by parliament.

The colony called Australia is a Human Rights abuser both abroad and domestically, where this was more evident from 2020 onwards, BUT this is rarely called out by the corrupt Anglo-Masonic legal system.

This instance, the Melbourne CBD ‘random’ search powers is not an isolated case of terrorism against the general population but rather deliberate systemic abuse of the general population.

The corrupt judicature deliberately hides too many cases of abuse by police, by either concealing the case files, ‘enticing’ persons to sign NDAs (Non-Disclosure Agreements), otherwise compensation will not be given or just plain and simply the registrars or the ‘gatekeepers’  not allowing matters to be brought before the courts against police.

Over the past decade successful claims have doubled against Victoria Police, by those who have chosen to sue VicPol, and did not decide to delegate their abuse into the ‘too hard basket’, meaning that corruption by VicPol is rife and they cannot be trusted.

Victoria Police have been given just as many powers as the Gestapo in 1930s Germany and how well did that go for the people?

People’s rights are being diminished and destroyed by a corrupt government and it’s only going to get worse, for the plebs.

The authorities deliberately create an environment that allegedly requires “reasonably necessary” action that is analogous to Nazi occupied Germany.

Within the Federal Court of Australia, in the matter of Browne v Assistant Commissioner of Police, North West Region [2026] FCA15, on the date of judgement of 23rd of January 2026, the Court struck down the six month police search powers.

In the judgment, the Court made it clear that the powers were unlawful and incompatible with fundamental rights, including the rights to privacy, freedom of movement, and peaceful assembly.

These are NOT just minor oversights, they are core protections that underpin a functioning democracy.

The lawmakers that enabled this including the Premier of Victoria, must be brought before the courts for charges against human rights, and realistically removed from their positions.

Keep in mind that you are not lawfully bound to answer any questions in initial interactions with  police.

In whichever predicament you many find yourself in, many questions from an officer may seem to be benign, BUT their main objective is for you to incriminate yourself, therefore as mentioned by Ray Shoesmith in ‘Mr. Inbeteen’, “I do not answer questions”.

Victoria Police: A corrupt vexatious litigant.

Irrespective of which state or territory one lives in, the colony’s police forces are corrupt, period.

Australians live under a police state, a totalitarian government, a fascist state, however else one would like to describe it.

What’s worse is that the Anglo-Masonic judiciary is supportive of their actions, actions that cause harm to the community.

Their corruption is wide and varies where it’s not limited to; false accusations and tampering with evidence in courts, illegal, unlawful and criminal actions.

In court even when evidence proves that the police have deliberately misled the court, or falsified evidence the judges/magistrates take zero action.

Basically the police terrorise the good people with impunity.

Any action from alleged road offences, to other criminal actions such as alleged drugs possession or assault or even alleged domestic violence, Victoria Police has a hand in it committing illegal, unlawful or even criminal actions against the accused.

Victoria Police take many accused to court with zero legal/lawful right to do so, making their actions vexatious, but the courts support their charade as it 'feeds' the system.

The allegation that IBAC (Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission) is ‘independent’ is a laughable farce, at the expense of the Victorian tax-payer.

It’s also quite ironic that ‘Ibac’ is an American comic book super-villain empowered by Lucifer, or is the acronym deliberate by design?

From 2020 onwards Victoria Police have been acting illegally and unlawfully, a statement that is not a personal opinion, but rather a legal opinion coming from the Victorian courts therefore Victoria Police as an organisation that cannot ever be trusted at all.

There are many case files that expose the criminality of Victoria Police, some on public record but many deliberately hidden from the general population, even though it is in the interest of the public to know the criminality of Victoria Police.

Some organisations do not operate with half of the criminality of Victoria Police and they are ‘outlawed’.

The newly exposed random search designation of Melbourne’s CBD being unlawful is just another example of a corrupt police state in action. 

Keep in mind, that the system is not ‘broken’, but rather it’s functioning perfectly, the way it is intended to.  

See also:

Corrupt NZ cop Mike Bush, Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police must resign

Google’s false information about 'protecting' its community.

Corporations lie to their stakeholders, users and the general population every single day.

Google has recently been lying on a global scale and there is zero repercussions.

There are a few ways into interact on the internet which can be summed up as either an active user or a passive one.

Let’s start with the passive example first.

A person can be the recipient of a TikTok/Instagram/YouTube link where it can be opened up in a web browser such as Brave/FireFox/Chromium without that person having to log in that corporation’s platform.

At that point in time that person cannot interact with the poster or community by writing a comment or even give a thumbs up to whatever was shown, where that person is also known as a ‘lurker’.

Since no interaction can be made, that person cannot allegedly be a danger to the community, as the community is not aware that the person even exists.

Now, if a person is logged in to TikTok/Facebook/YouTube then that person can post content that may not be safe for work, or even exercising one’s right to (alleged) ‘free speech’ by criticising a government’s new agenda or the passing of an unlawfully enacted law.

Those comments may then have to be moderated in order to allegedly ‘protect’ that online community.

So now Google (via Youtube) claims that when you are lurking on their platform, you could be a bot, implying that you could hurt the community, and when you log in “this helps protect our community”.

Quite simply put, no it does not! That is a blatant lie.

When will people wake up to the lies and deception by corporations.

It’s NOT about protecting their ‘community’ but rather surveillance capitalism, keeping in mind that Google is one of the world’s largest advertising data harvesting corporations, where they need to you log in to their platform so that they can sell you (the product) to others.

Who is "our community"? The people working for Google or the people using their platforms?

In the same vein as the above question, see link:

What is the first job of a government?