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.

  • buckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 day ago

    laws to ban children below 15 years from social media platforms, to protect them. keep them from learning about the genocide(s) their governments support and about what resources might be available for their gender identities, as well as to make surveillance of all internet users easier and more effective.