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Christine Lemmer-Webber 🌀
@cwebber@social.coop  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK (in response to new laws) https://www.theverge.com/news/704468/bluesky-age-verification-uk-online-safety-act

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fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻
@fromjason@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

It's not unusual for a social media company to express dissent for a law they're forced to implement. #Bluesky's eagerness to comply with centralized identity verification is telling.

https://bsky.social/about/blog/07-10-2025-age-assurance

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The Nexus of Privacy
@thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@cwebber Very concerning -- and there's similar regulation in Austrailia as well as some US state laws (currently tied up in courts) that would require age verification for social networks in general. Has there been any thought about how these apply with the Spritely architecture?
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RethinkJeff
@RethinkJeff@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@cwebber They can't get me to verify my email, what makes them think I'd submit to this?
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Softwarewolf
@faoluin@chitter.xyz replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@cwebber The comments on that article are about what I expect from half of The Verge's readership base.
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Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️
@Blort@social.tchncs.de replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@cwebber

What a surprise. A protocol that largely depends on centralized sections, gets focused on by federal agencies and ends up needing to identify individual users (and not just their age) and collect their privite information.

It's almost like decentralization was actually a good idea... 🤔

#ATprotocol#ActivityPub#Bluesky

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