Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms

underline960@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Just goes to show that blue sky isn’t as decentralized as they would like you to think they are.

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• Twipped@l.twipped.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Eugen issued a statement that Mastodon is physically incapable of implementing age verification and that thedecentralized nature of the fediverse means there is no central authority that can block regions which define these laws.

  techcrunch.com/…/mastodon-says-it-doesnt-have-the…

  IANAL, but I imagine under the laws, they would go after individual instance owners to mandate verification. The laws have no provision for third party software, so it would fall to the courts, but most instances don’t have the funds to fight it.

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  • underline960@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Seems untenable.

    If I live in Europe and run a mastodon instance open to anyone, it’s not like I or my server fall under a Mississippi law.

    What are they going to do, sue my Serbian ass? Serve a restraining order to my Norwegian server?

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    • Twipped@l.twipped.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Oh the laws are completely unenforceable, they’re basically just a blank check to go after any website the ruling class dislikes.

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