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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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[-] SufferingSteve@feddit.nu 2 points 3 months ago

Wow, people start caring when they come for their porn. These duopolies should be broken up, people should adopt crypto payments.

[-] MBech@feddit.dk 3 points 3 months ago

Nhaa fuck crypto. At least the crypto that are actually popular. Shit like bitcoin and ethereum are deflationary. And why the fuck would you spend money if there's a good chance your money is worth more tomorrow?

[-] SufferingSteve@feddit.nu 2 points 3 months ago

So basically it could help combat our blatant consumerism as well? Seems like a win to me

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[-] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

I believe monero has protections to prevent this. All transactions are secret.

[-] MBech@feddit.dk 3 points 3 months ago

How would secret transactions make a the coin not deflate? The issue is control of the production of the currency. If you can't control it, it's a cointoss wether it'll be infaltionary or deflationary. A lot of inflation is bad, and any deflation is catastrophic, so I'd really rather not leave the economy up to random chance and private entities' willingness to control the production of their shitcoins.

[-] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It wouldn't help much with inflation, but it wouldn't fluctuate as much as bitcoin due to all transactions being secret It is relatively stable. With monero you wouldn't have to worry about the value changing a lot in the span of a couple of hours.

[-] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

if we're talking one-off transactions, this is no problem. You simply get enough crypto for your purchase and spend it. You don't invest all of your money in it and you can circumvent the Visa/Mastercard garbage.

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

Bring back Chargex! Where is Diner's Club when you need them?

[-] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 points 3 months ago

I feel like a dipshit for not participating.

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[-] Korne127@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

So what happened with that? Did things change in hindsight?

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