Comment on France seeks to ban social media for children under 15
LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Wouldn’t this just wind up being a de facto ban on the platform we’re using right now? How could Lemmy implement an age verification system? If social media platforms that dont comply with age verification are banned, then by default there goes the fediverse for the most past lol.
Odds are someone would make an open source service that does the age verification that server owners could setup easily, that is, if the verification is done using franceconnect or some Zero Knowledge Proof service.
If it’s ID verfication then it would be awful.
tal@lemmy.today 4 days ago
I don’t think that it would matter much. Assuming that the legislation applies to the Threadiverse and doesn’t have some sort of exception, it’d still be effectively unenforceable, because most instances don’t operate in France’s legal jurisdiction.