Age verification in the Fediverse: How the KIDS Act challenges Mastodon
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The EU’s planned KIDS Act poses technical and organizational challenges for the Fediverse. However, it is unlikely to be the end, as some critics warn.
  • Cris_Citrus (he/him <3)@piefed.zipEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’m really tired of fighting with our governments to do any of the important helpful things they need to, and then also having to fight with them to not do shitty things that destroy good or worthwhile stuff

    It gets fuckin old man

  • kbal@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    A proposal for mass surveillance of all Internet users named the “KIDS ACT” huh. What a clever name for such a thing. Did the Americans write it, or did the same people who write bills for the Americans write it?

    • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      2 days ago

      This kind of thing has much less tradition in the EU than the US. First of all, European Union legislative texts are actually properly called “directives” or “regulations” (this in particular is a proposed regulation), putting “Act” in their titles is a very recent trend. And then, naming laws with these kinds of acronyms has so far not been common in the EU at all, that is clearly an imitation of US bills.