Age verification in the Fediverse: How the KIDS Act challenges Mastodon
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The EU’s planned KIDS Act poses technical and organizational challenges for the Fediverse. However, it is unlikely to be the end, as some critics warn.
  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
    311·
    6 days ago

    Man this is fucking exhausting. The treadmill of these policies.

    EU lemmings, who or what groups are promoting these? It feels like every time one gets defeated another crops up and that it’s relentless. Is this an astroturfed or organic campaign?

    • orclev@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      6 days ago

      There’s broad support for stopping predatory behavior by corporations that are targetting kids (and adults, but mostly kids). This is mostly the same stuff people have been complaining about for a decade or so at this point. Loot boxes, gacha mechanics, ad infested (and therefore stuffed with spyware for “marketing”), complicated multilayered digital currencies, battle passes, daily login rewards, etc. Basically all the well known dark patterns.

      However rather than addressing the bad behavior directly, politicians either through malice or incompetence (likely at the behest of corporate lobbyists) keep putting forth these ID laws that just make things worse instead of actually solving the problem people have been complaining about.

      • hneerqe@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        6 days ago

        These politicians know full well what they’re doing. At least they should and there’s no excuse. But they know.

        • orclev@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          6 days ago

          I’d assume many do, although some are likely just entirely out of their depth and are just listening to what the lobbyists are telling them.

  • moonburster@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    5 days ago

    I’m fed up with this shit. My parents educated me on the internet and the potential of seeing things you don’t want to see. They knew there was no change to 100% block or monitor what we did and instead made sure that they were always there if we did see something disturbing.

    Now I’m at the frontier age of getting kids and I just know that my kids will be just as smart in circumventing this kind of bs as I was (school monitoring web traffic ain’t working with a vpn) and I will gladly teach them about the internet. Hell, I’ll even take them back to when the internet of old and show what kind of crap we had to deal with.

    Solutions like these are like a bandaid. You’re not solving the problems. And even that is a utopian thought, but they ought to focus on the people that make the web unsafe, not the kids

  • sznowicki@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    6 days ago

    If it applies to mastodon it also applies to IMAP right? I wonder his exactly they see email protocol being updated to check how old is the recipient and i bet all those spammers will NOT send their unwanted content to my child inbox.

  • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    5 days ago

    It is unclear which servers are covered. The draft adopts the definition of a social network from the Digital Markets Act. Its Recital 11 clarifies that it concerns “information society services,” which EU law defines as services generally provided for remuneration. Whether a private, non-commercial hobby server falls under this depends on the legal classification of the specific offering. The statement that every instance without exception is covered is therefore an overstatement.

    Funny when the article itself contradicts the breathless clickbait headline.

    That said, perhaps this will apply and cause problems. Or perhaps not.