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Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws (techcrunch.com)
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[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Lucky for Mastodon and other ActivityPub projects, they don't need to host any servers. People outside of regions where age verification is required can host the servers instead.

[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But what if govt block the site hosted outside? And the VPNs require you to do an age verification?

[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Good luck blocking Tor or I2P. China already tried that.

[–] smnwcj@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

This does come with a (maybe trivial) cost for those hosts of not being able to enter the UK.