Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK
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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.
Do you think they won't try? I mean both the Tory and previous Labour admins tried to ban encryption.
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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.
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.
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.
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Where’s that federation?
And how would this fit in? Are they just going to build a bunch of excuses into the platform, and then claim it’s now impossible?
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.
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This pisses me off, governments mandating control. Would this affect Lemmy or any fediverse software one day?
it already does it's the reason why lemmy.zip isn't accessible in the uk (though it still federates to other servers)
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Somewhere in a government building in the UK: We did it, Patrick...
So uh, choosing an instance was too complicated, right?
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According to whom?
According to your father ulrich.
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According to whom?
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.
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So uh, choosing an instance was too complicated, right?
What makes you think this doesn't apply to Mastodon instances?
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Somewhere in a government building in the UK: We did it, Patrick...
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
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