Age verification in the Fediverse: How the KIDS Act challenges Mastodon
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The EU’s planned KIDS Act poses technical and organizational challenges for the Fediverse. However, it is unlikely to be the end, as some critics warn.
  • orclev@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    8 hours ago

    There’s broad support for stopping predatory behavior by corporations that are targetting kids (and adults, but mostly kids). This is mostly the same stuff people have been complaining about for a decade or so at this point. Loot boxes, gacha mechanics, ad infested (and therefore stuffed with spyware for “marketing”), complicated multilayered digital currencies, battle passes, daily login rewards, etc. Basically all the well known dark patterns.

    However rather than addressing the bad behavior directly, politicians either through malice or incompetence (likely at the behest of corporate lobbyists) keep putting forth these ID laws that just make things worse instead of actually solving the problem people have been complaining about.

    • hneerqe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      8 hours ago

      These politicians know full well what they’re doing. At least they should and there’s no excuse. But they know.

      • orclev@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        8 hours ago

        I’d assume many do, although some are likely just entirely out of their depth and are just listening to what the lobbyists are telling them.