You’ve failed to understand the problem entirely… the entire internet asks users to confirm they are above a certain age when creating accounts… and that happened because the USA demanded it. There’s nothing authoritarian about it… it’s a simple ‘Are you over 13yrs of age’ and you tick yes… that was it.
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remon@ani.social 5 weeks agothey did this to themselves by failing to do anything about age verification long before the online safety act came in recently
Good. They shouldn’t. Age verification online is an authoritarian scam.
Anomnomnomaly@lemmy.org 5 weeks ago
remon@ani.social 5 weeks ago
Funny how it doesn’t seem to be a problem in any other country.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
No, the entire internet absolutely does not ask that. Perhaps you meant the commercial for-profit internet?
FishFace@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
What they are being fined for (potentially) is not asking for users’ age during account creation. Not whatever you think (in spite of op being clear)
remon@ani.social 5 weeks ago
Good for them.
FishFace@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Why is that good?
remon@ani.social 5 weeks ago
They don’t have to deal with the taste of British dick in their mouth.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Flip that around: why is it bad?