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Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t Want Banned (www.techdirt.com)
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[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

Kinda interesting that, if you think about it, every one of the villains win - politics look like they did something useful; gambling continues to show ads everywhere; big tech "loses" the more heavily regulated population of its services while gaining a free pass to implement whatever sort of real age verification they want, the same kind that porn sites are being forced to use on UK

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