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After reading about this on hacker news, I get why they do it. Its to make people upload identification documents, to get them prepped to authenticate for using the internet. Now the world makes sense again. I was wondering why they would do something positive. But now I get it.
I see that you’ve changed your opinion, OP, but I still have a question.
How did seeing this as positive go together with being on the fediverse? How do the volunteers running this thing cope with these demands?
More generally: How can the open internet survive if every local government makes its own rules about what information or service you may or mustn’t give its citizens?
America is already deciding almost everything about the internet, through owning the operating systems, the networks, big tech companies, Ai, and so on.
They could make a law that forces all major american websites to require a global auth cookie, that people can only get by doing age verification at some site.
I can’t really make sense of that. Do you understand that Lemmy instances are run by just some random people?
Yes of course. I meant that they are part of the social media thing, and they may also be required to implement age verification if things become bad.