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So it begins (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by tired_fedora@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Reddit has begun rolling out mandatory age verification for any NSFW content, as well as for some social media functions, if the AI determines you might be under a certain age.

Another good day to be on Lemmy... until the surveillance capitalist tech overlords lobby enough to get their great firewall of the West, anyway.

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[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Literally no. Lemmy admins should shutdown the instance before implementing age restriction. And I'm not sure if lemmy will ever get that popular.

[–] makeshift0546@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh I'm sure that'll happen 👌👍

[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also you can simply chose to not give away your identity and switch to a different instance. If you dont trust any instance you can just selfhost one. Lemmy is resistant to these kind of attacks due to its decentralised nature.

[–] makeshift0546@lemmy.today 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah, I'm sure that'll survive hundreds of rounds of multiple owners getting shut down 🙄

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

No instances have to be shut down, if Lemmy world asks users to perform age verification, I’ll just move my account to sh.itjust.works and those who are ok with giving strangers their ID can stay on Lemmy.world. And so on and so forth until you find an instance that you trust that doesn’t live in a jurisdiction that bends the knee

[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 hours ago

What are you even trying to say? Can you please remove your sarcasm and make an argument I can understand?

People could create overseas instances that dont have age restriction. Stop being so righteous and sarcastic and actually engage in a conversation.