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How could/would/should the Fediverse do age verification if required in the EU? (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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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?

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[–] 13 points 6 months ago (7 children)

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.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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