OK, now that we have spent the morning looking at all the silly buggers being played, let’s take a look at some of the interviews from this morning.

Communications minister Anika Wells has seemingly suggested that liking K-Pop Demon Hunters, which has been in at the top of the most watched Netflix shows since its launch, could help prove that you are 13. Perhaps Wells is unaware of the absolute obsessed K-Pop Idols fandom out there, which is mostly made up of…adults (Huntrix forever).

Australia isn’t going down the road of making you show your ID to access social media sites under its age verification legislation, and instead will make the social media sites cross-reference your posting habits to see how old you are.

Which makes my brain-candy guilty pleasures of My Little Pony, K-Pop Demon Hunters and Care Bears suddenly look very confusing.

Wells told the Nine Network:

The trial has found that age assurance can be private, efficient and effective, and that there is no excuse for social media platforms in this country not to have age verification methods ready for 10th December, when our social media minimum age restrictions come into place.

And I don’t know if your viewers are keen age policy experts, but effectively it comes in three forms age verification, like when you show your driver’s license at the Bottle-o.

If you look less than 25 years old, age estimation where you get your face scanned like you might do with face ID when you’re logging on to a new phone, and age inference where by the data that you give social media platforms, if they’re seeing you talk to 65 year olds about caravanning, they might infer that you are 65.

If they see that you’re talking to 13 year about K-Pop Demon Hunters, they might infer that you are 13. Those are the three different methods in the broad and in the in the in the tech ecosystem in Australia. There are many effective ways that platforms can use to assure themselves of age come December.