The $6.5 million study that tells us that “age assurance can be done in Australia – our analysis of age assurance systems in the context of Australia demonstrates how they can be private, robust and effective”, might be a load of BS.

This is about the censorship of under 16s on the internet that is exciting the uniparty and odds and sods like the Greens and other authoritarians, as they continue to interfere with parental controls and wreck the family in true Marxist style.

The Free Speech Union of Australia has done some investigating of its own, without a $6.5 million impost on taxpayers.

The FSU has ferreted out information on systems that the Australian Censor will use to do the deed.

. A company called Yoti's thingy allowed 30% of 13 year olds, and 56% of 15 year olds access to “age-gated” content.
. ‘Lucidity’ allows 45% of 10 year olds and 75% of 15 year olds to access “age-gated” content.
. ‘VerifyMy’ allows 30% of 13 year olds and 58% of 15 year old access.
. ‘Unissey’ allows 34% of 12 year olds and 84% of 15 year olds access.
. ‘Privately’ allows 43% of 10 year olds and 87% of 15 year olds access.

And, it seems the systems don't work very well with “coloured” people. Indeed, the existing systems tend to overestimate the ages of Aborigines “considerably”: one 15 year old passing for a 68 year old.

As the FSU concludes, the December introduction of censorsing who can access what might be a “collision with reality”.

(Source: ‘The Pseudoscience of Age Assurance’, Reuben Kirkam, Quadrant Online. 29/7/25)

A quick check reveals The Free Speech Union of Australia is a right wing sovereign citizen outfit, which campaigned strongly against Covid-19 vaccination, and may well be associated with the ultra right The Libertarian Party.

"In September 2022, PayPal shut down the accounts of the Free Speech Union and Toby Young (FSU founder) due to claimed breaches of PayPal's acceptable use policy, believed to relate to alleged misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines."

Of course it is right wing, you idiot. The opposite to your communist trash. Those of us who are right wing are proud to be so; wouldn't be anything else. The 'right' is a fact of life. It opposes the 'left'. Only a thorough-going dimwit thinks there should only be one side - the dimwit's side.

You keeping stating the bloody obvious. If course there is a right wing that opposes the authoritarian left, that everywhere but Australia and Communist China people have had a gut full of.

The right will be back, even if I am not around to see it.

Troll 1405,

Your absurd post also proves that you are a troll. You don't address the topic, but try to put down the source. You could agree or disagree about the topic; but no, your default action as to shoot the messenger. For you, it's not what is said, but who says it. You are a thoroughly reprehensible person.

The source is not creditable, a reactionary extremist group headed up by a person who has been described as a raving lunatic by people of sound mind. The leader of this extreme fringe group, Toby Young, an Englishman calls himself, "Lord Baron of Action".

As for the threads author, the bloke who for years has been making 100 posts a week a must do on this little forum, has nothing better in his state of boredom. The bloke shows how unintelligent he really is, by launching into a tirade of abuse at me; idiot, communist trash, dimwit, troll. Many of the knowledgeable posters have given up on this old fella, calling him out, now seeing him for what he is, just uneducated trying to mix it with much smarter people.

Troll,

I regard you as being not credible and a raving lunatic. You are a great one to say that about anybody else.

You are the last of 3 initial wackjobs that has been hanging around OLO since it started. There have always been 3 of you: the latest being you, Armchair Critic, and John Daysh.

I have nothing better to do? What about you? You hang onto every word. You are obsessed with me, you sicko.

And, you get abused only by people you have yourself abused in the first place. You get what you give in this world, buster.

Uneducated? You can't even spell properly. You have told everyone that your son is a bus driver. If kids do better than their parents, what were you? A street sweeper?

Your problems with the English language suggest that you would have struggled to finish primary school.

Now, bugger off. You have had all the time I am prepared to waste on a nasty lout like you.