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.
  • moonburster@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’m fed up with this shit. My parents educated me on the internet and the potential of seeing things you don’t want to see. They knew there was no change to 100% block or monitor what we did and instead made sure that they were always there if we did see something disturbing.

    Now I’m at the frontier age of getting kids and I just know that my kids will be just as smart in circumventing this kind of bs as I was (school monitoring web traffic ain’t working with a vpn) and I will gladly teach them about the internet. Hell, I’ll even take them back to when the internet of old and show what kind of crap we had to deal with.

    Solutions like these are like a bandaid. You’re not solving the problems. And even that is a utopian thought, but they ought to focus on the people that make the web unsafe, not the kids

  • zangwill@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I hate when people validate the core idea of needing to protect children through age verification. Timmy lying about being over 18 to look at some boobs is not a problem that needs to be resolved. It’s like requiring everyone to wear body cameras specifically to prevent store clerks from being rude to you.

    • HerbGrower@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      2 days ago

      You say that about Timmy, but what about Sally who is drawing very detailed furry porn? Or Jack with his questionable anime notepad.

      Just some real examples I remember from school. You can’t even outlaw the pen to stop it, the rock layers around us were chalk. Quite often saw kids use it to draw on paths.

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Man this is fucking exhausting. The treadmill of these policies.

    EU lemmings, who or what groups are promoting these? It feels like every time one gets defeated another crops up and that it’s relentless. Is this an astroturfed or organic campaign?

      • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Imagine failing so hard to create a metaverse, blowing literal billions of dollars and a large chunk of their entire net worth, and still having a ton of money leftover to push this shitty idea for almost a year at a global scale.

      • lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        It’s tech giants in general trying to monopolize the Internet through regulatory capture. They’re the only ones who can afford to implement the age verification methods demanded. Laws like this effectively turn the Internet into cable TV.

    • orclev@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      There’s broad support for stopping predatory behavior by corporations that are targetting kids (and adults, but mostly kids). This is mostly the same stuff people have been complaining about for a decade or so at this point. Loot boxes, gacha mechanics, ad infested (and therefore stuffed with spyware for “marketing”), complicated multilayered digital currencies, battle passes, daily login rewards, etc. Basically all the well known dark patterns.

      However rather than addressing the bad behavior directly, politicians either through malice or incompetence (likely at the behest of corporate lobbyists) keep putting forth these ID laws that just make things worse instead of actually solving the problem people have been complaining about.

      • hneerqe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        These politicians know full well what they’re doing. At least they should and there’s no excuse. But they know.