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How does a country effectively enforce this? Below is how they propose doing this. If you don't have any form of verification of your actual age, it's seems like they are just going on what the user says ( self reports). How can a company be found liable if a used lies about their age?

>the days leading to the ban, some teenagers said that they were prompted to verify their ages using a facial analysis feature, but that it gave inaccurate estimates. The law also states that companies cannot ask users to provide government-issued identification as the only way to prove their age because of privacy concerns.





> How can a company be found liable if a used lies about their age?

You make them bleed money when you find they are in violation. They either figure it out or they go under as a company. There isn't a natural law saying companies have a right to exist.


Or they leave the country, which would then be very unpopular for the governing parties involved.

More akin to their data centre electricity costs. They pay it and move on.

Go and read the actual report of what the eSafety commissioner is requiring.

The company can't be found liable if they have put in reasonable age verification technology, particularly if the user lied about their age or found a way to circumvent the restrictions.

They clearly aren't going by just what the user says as the companies have implemented age verification tools that try to do that detection.


How can seatbelts be enforced? This is preposterous and imbecilic- if there isn't a policeman inside every car checking every minute how will we make sure that people are wearing them. Clearly there is no point in trying!

Not wearing seatbelts is preposterous.

There is seatbelt cameras in Australia.

They are everywhere, they can also be mobile and placed almost anywhere. These camera are mounted high so they can view down in through the windscreen.

They automatically issue a $1,251 for not wearing one to the license holder.


Huh, interesting. Australia keeps surprising me.

https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/which-australian-state...


That's about $5 in USD if anyone is wondering



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