How age verification tech could cross over to social media, Google's Shadow Hand and the fake town with 141,000 residents

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The timing of South Australia's announcement of a social media ban suggests that the federal government's plan to introduce age verification for porn could easily be expanded — and is it any surprise?

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Six months later, discovering they were now wearing the exact same dress as Labor, the opposition settled on a new wedge: age verification for social media. The timing was suspiciously convenient for federal Labor, on the eve of its budget launch where the trial is set to be formally announced.

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