PinkFairyArmadillo

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does Anyone Know What The Fediverse is Doing In Response to Age Verification Laws?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
A friend of a friend is an an admin in some federated platform and I asked them about this.

What they said is that the amount of bullshit around age verification is so significant that they would be willing to fight this legally, spend all money they have, and go to prison before caving in. Realistically, they think that at most their service would be brought down by the hosting infrastructure provider, which would motivate them to put effort into other types of solution.

But they consider it idiotic to say such a thing publicly, because regulators do have power and they could be looking for someone to make an example out of. Better to keep quiet, ignore it, and see how things develop instead of loudly making a fuzz. They think that there is a good chance that nothing meaningful comes out of this, as there have been many other scares in the past that fizzled out.