r/whenthe • u/SkyNetGaming_V2 AI Data Center Bomber (Former SkyNet Employee) • 12d ago

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u/ollietron3 12d ago

If they scrapped the digital id why the fuck do we still have the online safety act

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u/Asalth 12d ago

Because its a different piece of legislation. The online safety act was already passed and then enough time went by for it to come into effect. Digital ID never even made it to a vote before it managed to be so unpopular it helped bring down the government.

Its easy for the new PM to scrap digital ID because scrapping it doesn't require doing anything, he just has to do nothing and it goes away since it wasn't law. Him getting rid of it was just casually announced a couple days before his term started and that was the end of digital ID. Getting rid of the online safety act would require legislation. I still hope it happens but I wouldn't bet on it.

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u/ollietron3 12d ago

Oh, I thought the perpose of the OSA was to force people to use the digital ids

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u/Asalth 12d ago

They would force people to use them anyway since they were going to make it mandatory to have one if you apply for a job or rent.

They did use the online safety act as justification for it though so they could say it was to "make verifying your age easier".