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Steam has added auto age verification for Australian users (help.steampowered.com)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Dvixen@lemmy.world to c/australia@aussie.zone
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If your Steam account is nine years old, it now [edit to add: should] auto verify.

Doesn't do me any good, my account is just shy of six years old, and my MC debit card still doesn't work. I'll be 60 before it auto verifies unless my debit card magically starts working.

There must be some under 18s whose parents got them a steam account nine years ago who are now verified.

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[โ€“] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Hot take. It shouldn't matter if your account is old, and it's a good thing that people get frustrated by it, because it shouldn't be a thing and public unpopularity is the only way to make it not a thing. Don't be content with a bad thing just because you're exempt.

Yet again, Australia is the testing ground for anti-privacy authoritarian legislation.

[โ€“] perturbedstarstuff@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

And most Australians are far too apathetic and ignorant to understand or care about the danger.

It took no real effort at all to set the framing as not if, but how to implement the social media ban, when "if" should never have been a question.