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Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK (www.theverge.com)
submitted 21 hours ago by General_Effort@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Somewhere in a government building in the UK: We did it, Patrick...

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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

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.