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France seeks to ban social media for children under 15 (www.lemonde.fr)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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[–] 10 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

Wouldn't this just wind up being a de facto ban on the platform we're using right now? How could Lemmy implement an age verification system? If social media platforms that dont comply with age verification are banned, then by default there goes most of the fediverse.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago*

    How could Lemmy implement an age verification system?

    I don't think that it would matter much. Assuming that the legislation applies to the Threadiverse and doesn't have some sort of exception, it'd still be effectively unenforceable, because most instances don't operate in France's legal jurisdiction, and I imagine that most users, even in France, don't really care whether their instance is in France or not.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Odds are someone would make an open source service that does the age verification that server owners could setup easily, that is, if the verification is done using franceconnect or some Zero Knowledge Proof service.

    If it's ID verfication then it would be awful.

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