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Will Lemmy/ the fediverse become age verified platforms? (lemy.lol)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Age verification becomes more common. Australia, France, etc. introduce such laws to ban children below 15 years from social media platforms, to protect them.

Will these laws also be relevant to fediverse/lemmy specifically?

Personally I think these laws will focus on the big platforms at first (facebook/meta, youtube, discord, instagramm), which will force younger users with technical skills onto smaller and niche sites. Over time focus on this question will increase for the fediverse.

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[โ€“] 2 points 7 months ago

@yelling_at_cloud@programming.dev @SirHaxalot@nord.pub @asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Exactly! This, too. I forgot to mention it in the reply I just sent to SirHaxalot. And given the GDPR "Right to be forgotten", an authorization must be revocable, so this means an authorization must be re-validated, even if this doesn't necessarily mean having to go through the age check flow all over again.

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