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That bit isn't as bad as the part that says you can't run an interactive service without age verification though....
by b800h 3y ago
That bit isn't as bad as the part that says you can't run an interactive service without age verification though....
- dmje 3y agoThis is the bit that is scaring me, as someone who manages website for clients..
- b800h 3y agoIt blows a hole in all sorts of internet activities. We're going to have to rework a lot from scratch when it goes through. And of course the big internet companies won't complain about it because it gives them legislative capture of the web.
- seabass-labrax 3y agoWhat's weird about that is how it has leapfrogged law in 'real-life'. Minors aren't prohibited from talking to adults face-to-face, and you don't need to show proof of age before starting a conversation with someone! This new bill would turn the internet from an environment where nothing is age-restricted (in practice, if not in law) to one where everything is^. ^ Again, in practice if not in law: since no service provider could fully identify and restrict all 'adult' material in real-time, they will be effectively unable to serve any interactive content to minors. Only if the penalties for non-compliance were low enough would the largest of companies take that risk.