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Somewhere in a government building in the UK: We did it, Patrick...

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[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

This pisses me off, governments mandating control. Would this affect Lemmy or any fediverse software one day?

[–] pogmommy@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours ago

Pretty concerning that a "western democracy" is doing this, because it gives cover for the next one and the next one.

It's easy to say "oh I'll just stop using such and such a service" but what happens when there are no more legal services to switch to?

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago

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?

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 15 points 8 hours ago

"why has our userbase in the uk cratered but our userbase in germany skyrocketed?" - some bluesky dev looking at google analytics

[–] geekwithsoul@piefed.social 66 points 11 hours ago

Headlines like this really need to put the emphasis on the cause, e.g. "UK Government Forces Bluesky to Roll Out Age Verification"

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 49 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

If they did this here, I'd just stop using bluesky. I'm 41. But I have no interest in verifying ages online. We've all seen how poorly companies handle intetnal security.

Just yesterday McDonalds had their entire database of applications compromised because someone tried the password 123456.

Bluesky would be dropped instantly.

[–] catty@lemmy.world 26 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

This isn't about age verification. It's about getting your ID and tying your (probably illegal but yet to be proven) online activity to it. Much like the firewall of China.

All wrapped up nicely in the disguise of "age verification"

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org -4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

If it works the way they claim it is indeed very private.

[–] shaggyb@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Ulrich@feddit.org -1 points 3 hours ago

According to whom?

[–] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 16 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Canadian Senate Bill S-209 aims to do the same in Canada. These idiots really want our data so bad.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

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.

https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/bill/S-209/first-reading

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

https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/008db_2025-06-10-e#66

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.

[–] conorab@lemmy.conorab.com 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Same in Australia. From memory the law has already passed, it’s just got a delay on it to give companies a chance to implement it.

I'm looking forward to having a good excuse to delete most of my accounts and move entirely to decentralised platforms.

[–] ksigley@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

I haven't even verified my email with Blue. This would be more than a deal breaker.