Age verification won’t work, but idiot verification is doing fine in the male violence debate

Here’s how politicians, censorship advocates and hysterical journalists in the corporate media are pushing for a scheme that will encourage Australians to access worse and more violent pornography sites, all for a warm but useless inner glow about protecting kids.

According to the Morrison government-appointed internet censorship body the E-Safety Commission, 75% of people aged 16-18 have “encountered” pornography, often at much younger ages. Access to pornography by young people has been identified by the government as somehow a contributor to male violence toward women — yesterday, after a less-than-fruitful meeting of national cabinet, the federal government announced it would fund pilot programs aimed at “curbing easy access to damaging material by children and young people, and tackling extreme misogyny online”.