Hmm, do we know which countries will be exempt? I hadn’t thought about that…
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TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
Compliance depends on the instance. Pick an instance where the admin doesn’t give a dingo’s kidney, or an instance located in a country where the local law doesn’t require age verification.
Prathas@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
I’ve only heard about UK Australia and certain states in America. If you live in Kazakhstan next to Borat, you should be fine.
As always, EU is complicated, so we’ll have to wait and see how that works out.
hisao@ani.social 22 hours ago
Twitter / X started asking for age verification for NSFW content when browsed from EU.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
So, if you can’t even use Xitter for porn is there anything left? What even is the propose of that site any more?
Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
There isn’t a global law about age verification they countries could be exempt of. It’s individual countries doing it.
And on top of that the laws are different from what I’ve seen, in the UK for example you have to fullfil certain criteria to fall under that law. But frankly it seems to be a mess in my opinion.
This is what an age verification service says about it:
AcesFullOfKings@feddit.uk 20 hours ago
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 17 hours ago
I’m waiting to see exactly how the UK plans to compel me, someone who lives outside the UK with a Lemmy server hosted outside the UK, to follow their rules.
If they find me non-compliant, they can block my site.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
We are witnessing the next step along the way to a completely fragmented web. Sort of like the DataKrash, but in slow motion.
hisao@ani.social 18 hours ago
I struggle to understand, why do those sites block uk users? Are there really any “international regulations” that demand that if you don’t want to comply with whatever arbitrary rules some country set, you should stop serving users from that country?
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
The UK law says anyone found noncompliant will owe 10% of GLOBAL REVENUE in fines.
So companies don’t even want to deal with that bullshit
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 15 hours ago
Yes, there are - see GDPR as another example.
hisao@ani.social 11 hours ago
This is interesting, I did a bit of research and it seems, none of this is legally enforceable unless the company has EU presence. Basically EU just saying “we will do everything we can, but we can’t really do anything if you don’t have any operations on our land”.