Australia's New Age Verification for Adult Content

0:00Here's more Sydney news from March 5th. Starting Monday, Australians over 18 would need to verify their age to access pornography sites, our rated video games, and explicit AI chatbots. Search engines, social media platforms, app stores, gaming services, and generative AI tools must block kids from harmful content or risk fines up to $49,500,000 per violation. These new industry codes, guided by the e-safety commissioner, demand reliable age checks like photo identification, facial age estimation, credit card, details, or digital wallets, self declaration buttons claiming your 18 plus are no longer enough. Research reveals one in three children, age 10 to 17 have viewed sexual images online, while over 70% have encountered damaging. People such as extreme violence, self harm promotion, or eating disorder content. Many kids as young as 13 face first exposure to pornography.

1:01For AI companion bots that produce sexually explicit or violent outputs, age confirmation is now mandatory before granting access. App stores must restrict under 18 users from our way teen plus, rated apps, online games need verification for mature titles, and porn services require. Proof beyond simple clicks. Search engines will blur adult or violent results by default for non-logged in users. Officials emphasize this, levels the playing field with offline safeguards like age limits at bars and stores while promising to enforce compliance, strictly and support families. We'd like to thank our sponsor for making this episode possible. Your favorite podcasts, music, or sleep sounds coming from your pillow, no earbuds, no distractions, listen and relax, S-O-L-L-I, solelypillow.com.