Comment on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
General_Effort@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I see that you’ve changed your opinion, OP, but I still have a question.
How did seeing this as positive go together with being on the fediverse? How do the volunteers running this thing cope with these demands?
More generally: How can the open internet survive if every local government makes its own rules about what information or service you may or mustn’t give its citizens?
1984@lemmy.today 4 days ago
America is already deciding almost everything about the internet, through owning the operating systems, the networks, big tech companies, Ai, and so on.
They could make a law that forces all major american websites to require a global auth cookie, that people can only get by doing age verification at some site.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I can’t really make sense of that. Do you understand that Lemmy instances are run by just some random people?
1984@lemmy.today 4 days ago
Yes of course. I meant that they are part of the social media thing, and they may also be required to implement age verification if things become bad.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 3 days ago
They are already required. Australia is requiring them to do exactly that. It’s a safe bet that this will be ignored for now, at least outside of Australia.
Suppose the fediverse wanted to comply, what do you think the volunteers running it would have to do?