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Re:Australia will not force age verification due to privacy ... by pseudo0 on Thursday August 31, 2023 @03:03AM (#37333485)
That tends to happen when you have a small population and an outlier event occurs in a given year... Your entire country is the size of a large US city. If you calculated NYC's murder rate and included 9/11, it would also be pretty abysmal in 2001.
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Re:Australia will not force age verification due to privacy ... by verve_rat on Thursday August 31, 2023 @06:43AM (#37335103)
An the US reacted to 9/11 with a bunch of law changes among other things. A large event had an impact.

Honestly, I don't see what you are trying to point out?

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Re:Australia will not force age verification due to privacy ... by pseudo0 on Thursday August 31, 2023 @11:04AM (#37338287)
9/11 got us the Patriot Act, the TSA, an invasion of a completely unrelated country that killed around 600,000 people, and a few trillion dollars in unnecessary military spending. Knee-jerk responses generally don't end well, speaking from experience.
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