How could/would/should the Fediverse do age verification if required in the EU? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by General_Effort@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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The question is prompted by the age verification app that the EU has just presented.

Some EU countries want to ban social media for young people. If that were to happen, what then?

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[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

This is precisely the point of literally all the recent new laws regulating online platforms, including this.

To kill smaller ones that can't comply with those laws, so that only large ones remain (if at all) and it is easier to censor and surveil the users there.

I just hope that at some point, people will figure out how wrong politicians of the 2020s were to do all of this, and a new free and open Internet will rise from the ashes as long as any remain.