Not feasibly, no. If a centralized platform like bluesky refuses to abide by the laws in a given country, their platform can be made inaccessible in that country. Trying to do that to countless activitypub-compliant servers wouldn't be practical since you van just hop to another server.

Thanks for the information.

I found this specific clause very ... porous.

Clarification — commercial purpose
6 For greater certainty, for the purpose of section 5, an organization that incidentally and not deliberately provides a service that is used to search for, transmit, download, store or access content on the Internet that is alleged to constitute pornographic material does not make available pornographic material on the Internet for commercial purposes.

So... I guess Bing will once again be my goto incidental indeliberate porn search engine. And reddit. And Lemmy.

Public Bill (Senate) S-209 (45-1) - First Reading - Protecting Young Persons from Exposure to Pornography Act - Parliament of Canada

Public Bill (Senate) S-209 (45-1) - First Reading - Protecting Young Persons from Exposure to Pornography Act - Parliament of Canada

(www.parl.ca)

Surprisingly, a conservative senator had a fairly well reasoned, and cautious, (although still supportive), response speech.

Debates, Issue 8 (June 10, 2025)

Debates, Issue 8 (June 10, 2025)

SenCanada (sencanada.ca)

It still has a long way to goto get through senate committee and house readings and committees and all that. Still, might be a good time to scrape all the porn.

This is the UK we're talking about, absolutely no one in government knows how to block anything. Seriously every time they block something I just use one of those crappy free VPN plugins and get around it. Basically I'm only looking for magnet links anyway.

You don't even need to keep the VPN on to torrent the file. It's so stupid.

Just hope they (Facebook and friends) give you the choice to delete OR verify those accounts and not require verification to delete it.

I have seen some people in UK (on reddit) complaining about ISP sending notices when torrenting w/o a VPN.

Do you think they won't try? I mean both the Tory and previous Labour admins tried to ban encryption.

Look at Bill S-210 from the last Parliament, it made it to 2nd reading in the House. There is cause for concern.

I appreciate your dive into the topic though. Michael Geist has more info on his website.

This is mandated by UK law. If you created a node so that UK users can bypass this, you would be doing something illegal. You'd probably get defederated.

it already does it's the reason why lemmy.zip isn't accessible in the uk (though it still federates to other servers)

So uh, choosing an instance was too complicated, right?

According to your father ulrich.

Is the system opaque? Does someone else hold the private encryption keys? Could unencrypted data leak from the company and expose users?

If any of those answers are "yes", then assume it's already compromised by a government and unsafe.

What makes you think this doesn't apply to Mastodon instances?

Good for them. Too many goddamn kids on the internet with dumbass ideas and shitty grammar and yolos and skibidy rizz, why back in my day we have to go uphill both ways to the internet cafe before we could argue with a strawman online

There is no encryption involved. They just give you a token that verifies your age and you present the token to the site.

But you have to submit evidence of age to some site, right? So where does that evidence (your ID) get sent to or stored? Once it's sent, are you sure it's not stored? Is the token unique or traceable to you?

I honestly don't know, and when I don't know, I have to assume it's not staying private.

Your evidence is already stored with the gov, regardless of the any age verification systems. And the gov provides your token. If you honestly don't know, you should research instead of making assumptions.

European Digital Identity

Official GitHub Organization of the European Digital Identity project. - European Digital Identity

GitHub (github.com)

Fair enough. Thanks for the info.

Fuck this shit