Comment on Will Lemmy instances be forced to verify users' ~~ages~~ identities?

TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• AcesFullOfKings@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We are witnessing the next step along the way to a completely fragmented web. Sort of like the DataKrash, but in slow motion.

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    • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The EU didn’t completely fragment. Could just be the next step to the UK totally walling itself off from the world.

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  • hisao@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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    • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes, there are - see GDPR as another example.

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      • hisao@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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”.

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• Prathas@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hmm, do we know which countries will be exempt? I hadn’t thought about that…

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  • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • hisao@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Twitter / X started asking for age verification for NSFW content when browsed from EU.

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      • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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  • Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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:

    yoti.com/…/understanding-age-verification-online-…

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