Post by @rysiek@mstdn.social

I am reading the EU Kids Act, and I want to be clear and concise: fuck online age verification.

That said, if I am reading it right, fedi instances *could* be configured in a way that spares them from age verification requirements?

Age verification is basically Chapter II Section I Article 6 point 1 of the Act:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:52026PC0681#:~:text=minors-,Article,service,-%2E

There are 5 things that each individually can make a social media service or video-sharing platform required to do age verification:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX%3A52026PC0681

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JakeKb

@JakeKb@mastodon.social 55 min. ago

@rysiek It's a really good idea to prepare for it and try to find ways around it, because if we are honest, the eu leadership have already made up their minds and no matter how much we push back, it will pass eventually.

Ret

@ret@furry.engineer 4 hr. ago

@rysiek attempting to comply is a mistake in my view. It legitimises these things. Lex iniusta non est lex.

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

@rysiek@mstdn.social 4 hr. ago

@ret well if you cared to read the whole thread…
https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/117451967860327274

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

@rysiek@mstdn.social 4 hr. ago

First two:

"enables recipients who access the service through an account to transmit content in real-time to an indeterminate number of other recipients of the service, including through live streaming of audio-visual content;"

"enables recipients who access the service through an account to contact, communicate and otherwise interact with other recipients of the service not part of the recipient's pre-existing connections or subscriptions;"

So, make posts friends-only, and accounts locked.

Chłop Marcin :fediverse:

@chlopmarcin@101010.pl 2 hr. ago

@rysiek How would Fedi-people find new people to follow if everyone would post only to followers and all accounts would be locked?

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

@rysiek@mstdn.social 4 hr. ago

"uses a recommender system which is based on profiling as defined in Article 4, point (4), of Regulation (EU) 2016/679;"

Easy. No profiling. I guess we get that for free on fedi anyway.

"uses a recommender system suggesting or prioritising to a recipient who accesses the service through an account contact suggestions or information that has not been provided by one of the recipient’s pre-existing connections or subscriptions;"

Disable recommendations. Boosts are fine. Check!

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

@rysiek@mstdn.social 4 hr. ago

Final one:

"deploys or presents functionalities, interface designs or characteristics which are intended, or can reasonably be foreseen, to enable uninterrupted content consumption, that incentivise interactions with the service or with content or other recipients of the service, or that transmit automated notifications designed to prompt the user to initiate or resume use of the service."

No endless auto-loading feed and no annoying "we haven't seen you for a while" notifications. Gotcha.

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

@rysiek@mstdn.social 4 hr. ago

This is a Hot Take™, and there is a lot of possible nuance here. But the way things are written, it seems to me kinda sorta possible to create fedi instances that would not be required to do age verification at all.

Obviously, we should not comply in advance with this BS at all. Instead, we should push back against EU Kids Act.

But it is genuinely interesting to me to see how fedi could maybe avoid being caught in largely by many things that are already available or obvious on fedi.

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