“The SCOPE Act takes effect this Sunday, Sept. 1, and will require everyone to verify their age for social media.”

So how does this work with Lemmy? Is anyone in Texas just banned, is there some sort of third party ID service lined up…for every instance, lol.

But seriously, how does Lemmy (or the fediverse as a whole) comply? Is there some way it just doesn’t need to?

  • RaoulDook@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    That didn’t work with porn, so it’s not a good idea for less popular websites.

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      3 months ago

      Honestly only a couple of the big porn sites, of it hit more big things it’d cause more uproar, imagine if Facebook went down for a day

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        3 months ago

        Enough that there’s a serious spike in VPN sales during the porn age restriction wave.

        I doubt NordVPN and friends would see that if EVERY single lemmy instance got banned.