The question is prompted by the age verification app that the EU has just presented.
Some EU countries want to ban social media for young people. If that were to happen, what then?
It shouldn’t, just host it somewhere else where legislation doesn’t apply.
Will every website out there start doing age verification? Doubtful
Just the ones we will quit.
It should not. Fuck the police.
Implement portable actors and tell them to get bent
A related question that comes to mind is what jurisdiction’s laws should we all be exploring to avoid age verification completely?
I’m not suggesting we all get legal degrees or dispense legal advice, but as conscientious people who are also literate: Should the Fediverse identify lists of these jurisdictions for its community of small to very large instances, and resources to help decide whether those laws of favourable jursidictions should be adopted and some common pitfalls?
We all see the headlines of countries exploring bans on under 16s for social media in the name of improved ad and online surveillance. Which are the countries who are saying no or will resist this?
Personally I’d want to see at least some instances behind i2p or tor as it’s really the only answer to all the censorship coming.
Doubtful it ever will happen I mean that stuffs had a lot of time to take off and hasn’t as yet.
I wish the fediverse would allow federating with Tor-protected instances
This is precisely the point of literally all the recent new laws regulating online platforms, including this.
To kill smaller ones that can’t comply with those laws, so that only large ones remain (if at all) and it is easier to censor and surveil the users there.
I just hope that at some point, people will figure out how wrong politicians of the 2020s were to do all of this, and a new free and open Internet will rise from the ashes as long as any remain.
Unfortunately, the general public has no idea whatsoever of the Fediverse and doesn’t care about the monopoly of information, mega platforms abusing your data, privacy, and so on and so forth. I’m old enough to finally have come to the conclusion that progress is not made by the masses but by smart, motivated and usually underappreciated individuals. Sadly.
I was already posting on web forums (also wikis) before Facebook or Twitter became popular, when the Internet was not yet very established and posting things on it oneself was something only few people thought of doing.
I was outright excited when I saw “social media” becoming more mainstream. I thought at the time, at least more people are using the Internet, even if it’s “just” Facebook or Twitter (which I didn’t and still don’t see much value in), at least it’s the Internet, that’s a good thing because the Internet is a great and exciting thing for society and a wonderful source of entertainment!
Now we live in a world where the general public mostly only knows how to operate social media apps, otherwise has no tech proficiency at all, doesn’t even know what else is out there on the Internet, and doesn’t know or care how the social media apps they’re using are designed to manipulate them. And politicians are busy working to make it harder for good idealistic people to solve those problems. :(
Small platforms are excluded but don’t let that get in the way of your hysteria
Small platforms are excluded today
Yeah that’s how laws work, if it included them it would be a different law or a significantly different proposal.
From some things maybe. Plenty of recent “online safety” style laws around the world have no exceptions based on platform size.
We are talking about a specific thing: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/dsa-vlops
You are talking about the DSA.
There is no reason to believe that future social media bans will have such exceptions. VDL said explicitly that the app means that there are “no more excuses”.
The DSA excludes small platforms from some rules, so as not to overwhelm start-ups with bureaucracy. Clearly, such considerations are to be neutralized in the future.
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I would only ever sign up for an instance that is not subject to it, or does not comply, or at least maliciously complies. And by malicious compliance I mean something where it’s implemented in such a “buggy” way that it’s easy to bypass.
But really I’d just go for instances hosted outside the EU.
How on earth would the EU possibly do this given the entire structure is federated?
They likely don’t even know what Lemmy is.
Good point. European governments keep churning out the digital regulation, but have hardly any qualified people to enforce them. That has protected the Fediverse, so far.
But a straight age-gating requirement would require no particular qualifications to spot. Would you be willing to face a hefty fine just for the privilege of running an instance?
A prompt at sign-in:
“Are you 18 or older?”
Yes: let’s you in
No: lets you in
I wish it was so simple
Like this https://lemmy.ml/post/46011830
If they make the fediverse illegal, then it will be illegal. There’s not much that can be done about it. Obviously we cannot do “age verification.”
It would look really bad, politically, so they probably won’t go that far right now — they’ll just slowly push things in that direction until it seems feasible.
There’s not much that can be done about it.
According to many lemmings the elegant solution is to simply ignore the law entirely and pretend that will be ok
How is it they can meaningfully enforce it?
The notion that every single user-to-user service should incorporate invasive age-ID tools in itself is deranged and dystopian.
I’m not arguing it being an insane law. But it would be enforced by fining companies within applicable jurisdictions. Companies like system 76 or anyone else profiting from distributing an operating system, or anything else they can argue it applies to.
Oh we’re talking about OS, not user-to-user services online.
There are so many variants of Linux they could never get on top of it.
I mean yeah you could never get to 100% enforcement, like with every other law. But it wouldn’t be hard to have a huge impact against the big guys. Ignoring the law as one of those is not going to be smart. Unless you move your ops somewhere not impacted. But realistically it would be easier to just follow the law.
I mean I simply don’t think they will bother regarding the many Linux variants.
Same reason they won’t bother the Threadiverse. I doubt they even know what it is.
I agree. Although over time some of the things we don’t expect to be impacted may be. I hope I’m wrong.
You tell anyone asking that they can suck your dick. Being that they must be an adult to have that job and ask that question, you must be an adult to be able to give consent to them.
Age = verified.
First of all we should submerge the EU parliament with protests, as we did for the chat-control question. Then protest marches, strikes, and so on. Then simple non-compliance. Whatever is undemocratic has automatically null morally legal validity.
I think we can still use the https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ platform for this. Just need to change the text and protest against age verification.
