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Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io (www.theguardian.com)
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Collective Shout, a small but vocal lobby group, has long called for a mandatory internet filter that would prevent access to adult content for everyone in Australia. Its director, Melinda Tankard Reist, was recently appointed to the stakeholder advisory board for the government’s age assurance technology trial before the under-16s social media ban comes into effect in Australia in December.

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[–] Lebensmittel@sh.itjust.works 23 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

They precisely can and they kinda just did. "Think of the children" is the magic phrase to shut down critical thinking and give you carte blanche to do whatever you want.

[–] ApatheticCactus@lemmy.world 9 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Not always. School shootings happen and suddenly crickets on gun control. "Think of the children" only applies to moral outrage, not tangible physical threat prevention. Also applies to school lunches and any other actual tangible thing to ACTUALLY benefit general child welfare.

[–] Lebensmittel@sh.itjust.works 6 points 19 hours ago

Sure, I implied moral outrage. It's not like they actually give a damn about the children.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 18 hours ago

"think of the children" WRT school ahootings means more police in American schools and arming American teachers.