There’s a growing push to mandate age verification across popular online services in the U.S. and other countries around the world, but here’s one place that won’t be introducing the rule anytime soon: Australia.
For the past couple years, Australia—along with the U.K.—has been leading efforts to pass laws requiring websites to actually check the ages of their users before letting them in. Porn sites are obvious targets, but so are the likes of Facebook and Reddit, which have rules stating users should be age 13 or over, but which are often used by younger kids.
