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@1984@lemmy.today on lemmy.today Open parent

What do you guys think about this? I think its a big positive.

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@General_Effort@lemmy.world on lemmy.world Open parent

I see that you’ve changed your opinion, OP, but I still have a question. How did seeing this as positive go together with being on the fediverse? How do the volunteers running this thing cope with these demands? More generally: How can the open internet survive if every local government makes its own rules about what information or service you may or mustn’t give its citizens?

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@1984@lemmy.today on lemmy.today Open parent

America is already deciding almost everything about the internet, through owning the operating systems, the networks, big tech companies, Ai, and so on. They could make a law that forces all major american websites to require a global auth cookie, that people can only get by doing age verification at some site.

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@General_Effort@lemmy.world on lemmy.world Open parent

I can’t really make sense of that. Do you understand that Lemmy instances are run by just some random people?

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@1984@lemmy.today on lemmy.today Open parent

Yes of course. I meant that they are part of the social media thing, and they may also be required to implement age verification if things become bad.

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@General_Effort@lemmy.world on lemmy.world Open parent

they may also be required to implement age verification They are already required. Australia is requiring them to do exactly that. It’s a safe bet that this will be ignored for now, at least outside of Australia. Suppose the fediverse wanted to comply, what do you think the volunteers running it would have to do?

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1984 in !technology

@1984@lemmy.today · Dec 13

Just guessing here but maybe implement support for some kind of dystopian cookie that all visitors need to have in their browser…

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