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Twipped@l.twipped.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller PlatformsEnglish2·22 days agoOh the laws are completely unenforceable, they’re basically just a blank check to go after any website the ruling class dislikes.
Twipped@l.twipped.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller PlatformsEnglish3·23 days agoThe article names multiple sites that have already shut down due to the UKs law
Twipped@l.twipped.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller PlatformsEnglish2·23 days agoEugen issued a statement that Mastodon is physically incapable of implementing age verification and that thedecentralized nature of the fediverse means there is no central authority that can block regions which define these laws.
IANAL, but I imagine under the laws, they would go after individual instance owners to mandate verification. The laws have no provision for third party software, so it would fall to the courts, but most instances don’t have the funds to fight it.
I’ll give you that for Shenzi (Whoopi Goldberg), but that’s a big stretch for Banzai (Cheech Marin) and Ed (Jim Cummings). I don’t think Marin can play anything other than a mexican stereotype, and Ed was just a moron.