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.
  • minorkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    2 hours ago

    I feel all of this is to prepare for future legal enforcement of approved internet use. AI is destroying the internet we know and value because rich people want more power, as they do with everything they touch.

  • sznowicki@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    4 hours ago

    If it applies to mastodon it also applies to IMAP right? I wonder his exactly they see email protocol being updated to check how old is the recipient and i bet all those spammers will NOT send their unwanted content to my child inbox.

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    6 hours 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?

    • orclev@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      5 hours 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
        5·
        5 hours ago

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

        • orclev@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          5 hours ago

          I’d assume many do, although some are likely just entirely out of their depth and are just listening to what the lobbyists are telling them.