Comment on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
1984@lemmy.today 4 days agoAmerica 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?
1984@lemmy.today 3 days ago
Just guessing here but maybe implement support for some kind of dystopian cookie that all visitors need to have in their browser…
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Tell them to eat shit. You don’t like my domain? Block it and fuck off. Parent your shitty kids.