Age verification in the Fediverse: How the KIDS Act challenges Mastodon
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The EU’s planned KIDS Act poses technical and organizational challenges for the Fediverse. However, it is unlikely to be the end, as some critics warn.
    • lambaliciousEnglish
      27·
      6 days ago

      They would easily dare to enforce it against smaller entities who can’t fight back, is the point.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        also allows them to silence criticism, and censor material that they dont like, current hot topic anti-zionism.

        • lambaliciousEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          ¡Exactly!

          Now, what are good options, I dunno. But I’ve always considered that it’s important for platforms with strong presence of social resistance to have adjacent hosting in something like extrajudicial waters, or at least in countries that can safely ignore things like the DMCA.

    • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      9·
      6 days ago

      I hope we can elect politicians who don’t hate the Internet at some point, so that we don’t have to hope it will be unenforceable.

      I’ve been a very regular user of the Internet for more than 20 years, and 20 years ago I thought that surely in 20 years, the Internet will have become established and governments will no longer be trying to attack it, instead we will be living in a utopia of free international communication. That has turned out to be false. :(

      • HeHoXa@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        Idk if it’s really possible to have government supported internet that isn’t a government controlled internet.

        Governance in general relies a lot on the spiral of silence, and a free internet tends to disrupt it.

      • eremophila@lemmy.zipEnglish
        11·
        6 days ago

        People should have thought about electing decent politicians decades ago, but far too many have fallen for electing ‘the lesser evil’ instead.