Six tankers scheduled to deliver oil to Australia have had their voyages cancelled because of flow-on impacts from the war in the Middle East, with the nation’s energy minister now conceding fuel supply could become bumpy if the conflict drags on.
The fuel prices in Australia right now are as high as they were in Germany like 10 years ago… It’s not that bad, just saying. The current prices in Germany are about twice as high.
Hmm we better suck america off some more and put age verification on the fuel pumps, that will solve everything.
I’d argue that age verification on large US tech company’s products, what I presume you’re referencing, is the opposite of sucking up to the US
Age verification is being promoted by surveillance capitalism lobbyists. It is literally an operation to deanon as much web traffic as possible for data harvesting, profiling, and propaganda. Handing everyones browsing data to billionaire techno fascists who only use that data for exploitation is the opposite of protecting children.
Might as well let the fox “secure” the hen house by chaining up the chicks “to protect them”.
With Age Verification, we are now the Tech Company’s products.
Less than a year ago, companies were still advertising that they were anonymising user data.
They now have an obligation to collect non-anonymised data about us.
They have a statutory obligation to keep this information secure.
They also have EULAs that contradict their statutory obligation.
They have an obligation to protect this information, but they also have an obligation to their shareholders to mAxImIsE pRoFiT.
Since US businesses are currently being given carte blanche in civil liberty violations by their current administration, I think we are pretty much screwed.
You were always a tech companies product
Why do they need to keep anything deanonymised? You need to verify 18+ and I appreciate that requires a ledger for legal purposes but that verification can and should be data siloed. Also, the way databases work with keys mean that I’d be pretty surprised if there weren’t joins being possible that were used (ie where do people that view this content live), but with access (without having specific bugs alongside and audit trail) forcing anonymous data on employees
oh oh spaghettio
