Comment on Will Lemmy instances be forced to verify users' ~~ages~~ identities?

• bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m waiting to see exactly how the UK plans to compel me, someone who lives outside the UK with a Lemmy server hosted outside the UK, to follow their rules.

  If they find me non-compliant, they can block my site.

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• TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  We are witnessing the next step along the way to a completely fragmented web. Sort of like the DataKrash, but in slow motion.

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• hisao@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I struggle to understand, why do those sites block uk users? Are there really any “international regulations” that demand that if you don’t want to comply with whatever arbitrary rules some country set, you should stop serving users from that country?

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  • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The UK law says anyone found noncompliant will owe 10% of GLOBAL REVENUE in fines.

    So companies don’t even want to deal with that bullshit

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  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yes, there are - see GDPR as another example.

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    • hisao@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This is interesting, I did a bit of research and it seems, none of this is legally enforceable unless the company has EU presence. Basically EU just saying “we will do everything we can, but we can’t really do anything if you don’t have any operations on our land”.

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      • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Correct - but if you don’t comply and ever step foot in a EU country or a country that will extradite to the EU, you’re fucked. Most people hosting a Lemmy instance will shit themselves at the thought of having millions of dollars in fines and an arrest warrant against their name in a foreign country, even if they never intend on going to that country.

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