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Skavau@piefed.social 6 days agoThat’s fine, but it’s an obvious technicality isn’t it?
“Oh your side has outrageous content that could harm children? Oh, it’s okay. You don’t have user accounts. Carry on.”
ryannathans@aussie.zone 6 days ago
Proof it’s not about “protecting children” when the most child unfriendly sites are not impacted
Skavau@piefed.social 6 days ago
What that means technically is that the Fediverse could just allow non-account posting whilst verifying everyone who makes accounts. What a laughable law. At least in the UK, they didn’t allow such a loophole even if we can’t do anything to 4chan.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 6 days ago
Nailed it
They could just release some tools to parents to monitor/block sites but that would be too logical
Skavau@piefed.social 6 days ago
Comments on reddit are suggesting that the fediverse is simply too small to come under this law btw
Also, how is the verification process working there rn?
pupbiru@aussie.zone 4 days ago
i agree, but i also think that IF this were something conducted in good faith (it’s not), then the process would be pretty similar: gated access is the easy fix, so you work that out first (like a minimum viable product), and then work on the harder parts later
ryannathans@aussie.zone 4 days ago
If conducted in good faith they would have discussed it with industry like everything else they do and industry would have worked with them to produce a solution that isn’t brain dead
Like zero knowledge proofs for being over 18
pupbiru@aussie.zone 4 days ago
i completely agree, i just don’t think that particular line of reasoning (not taking into account anonymous sites) proves that
if they wanted to do it properly, they’d have a system that integrates with mygovid that sites can integrate with via some oauth-like flow (login with facebook, login with google, etc: but verify with mygov), and the only thing the site gets back is a “yes over 16”
the government has this data; there’s no reason anyone else should see it
of course that’s also assuming the whole concept is a good idea, which is absolutely not… it’s wallpapering over a massive problem whilst solving absolutely nothing and causing issues