@mellifluousbox@mastodon.social
Post #338029
2026-02-19 11:21 UTC
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/116086899600949599
I want to expand on the age-verification working group plan, to avoid confusion. The goal is to create an informal group of experts in the areas of law, privacy, trust & safety, and technology. Their agenda is explicitly not to _implement_ age verification/assurance, neither in the Mastodon software nor in our own servers. The group will assess various risks for the user base, the server admins, and the project and analyse it from different perspectives to provide a balanced recommendation.
Replies (4)
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@Teckids@bildung.social 2026-02-19 11:24
@mellifluousbox Please feel free to contact us for first-hand insights into the topics around children in online communities and spaces.
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@philipkristians@mastodon.social 2026-02-19 11:25
@mellifluousbox thanks for clarifying! important for everyone to understand
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@ret@furry.engineer 2026-02-19 12:50
@mellifluousbox there's no need for a working group. Commit to never doing it. Enshrine it in the "vision and strategy" of the project that freedom of expression, privacy and personal control over data should be the goals of Mastodon. Parents have a job to protect their kids online, not an Open Source project.
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@eltonfc@bertha.social 2026-02-19 13:11
@mellifluousbox this may be useful for our cases for Brazilian instances given the new legislation. CC @liaamancio @cadusilva @vitu #fediadminbr