Age verification becomes more common. Australia, France, etc. introduce such laws to ban children below 15 years from social media platforms, to protect them.
Will these laws also be relevant to fediverse/lemmy specifically?
Personally I think these laws will focus on the big platforms at first (facebook/meta, youtube, discord, instagramm), which will force younger users with technical skills onto smaller and niche sites. Over time focus on this question will increase for the fediverse.
One of the Aussie ones already does by you providing a pic of you having a drink at a pub.
That way the instance owner doesn’t have to hold PPI as someone having a drink at a pub means they are over 18 and aren’t subject to the law.
Some poor alcoholic Aussie relapses just to chat with strangers online.
Which one? Definitely novel, but pretty easy to defeat. I wonder how well it will hold up to legal challenge.
aussie.zone
But FWIW, the australian law only applies to the sites they (the government) have explicitly told have to comply. They are marketing it as “all social media”, but it’s only, among others, facebook, tiktok etc.
I tried that one first, is it part of the sign up process or later? Maybe they reverted it?
I’m not 100% sure. I have an account on aussie.zone, but I logged in recently, and there was no request or anything for anything. So i dunno. i think it’s based on the honour system
It absolutely won’t hold up. I think it was tongue in cheak