Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone

• Skavau@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

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  • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Nailed it

    They could just release some tools to parents to monitor/block sites but that would be too logical

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    • Skavau@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨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?

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      • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I haven’t seen any cutout for small sites, you have to comply if meeting the criteria. You’d just be breaking the law and hoping the govt doesn’t come knocking

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• 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

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  • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨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

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    • pupbiru@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨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

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