Age verification laws are proliferating fast across the United States and around the world, creating a dangerous and confusing tangle of rules about what we’re all allowed to see and do online. That's why today, we're launching EFF.org/Age, a one-stop shop for users seeking to understand what these laws actually do, what’s at stake, why EFF opposes all forms of age verification, how to protect yourself, and how to join the fight for a free, open, private, and yes—safe—internet.

This has me wondering what’s going to happen to platforms like this. How would age verification even work here? Would it work?

  • Midnitte@beehaw.orgEnglish
    11·
    23 hours ago

    This has me wondering what’s going to happen to platforms like this. How would age verification even work here? Would it work?

    It wouldn’t, and that’s part of the point. Turn the internet into techbro mecca.

    • Typhoon@lemmy.ca
      5·
      17 hours ago

      Yes this legislation would kill all the smaller sites on the internet, and that’s exactly the point. They wouldn’t be able to support the overhead for it so they’d all have to host on the big players.

      It would kill the internet as we know it.

    • ɔiƚoxɘup@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
      2·
      20 hours ago

      You’re right. It wouldn’t. So what happens when enforcement begins?

      Server relocation?

      How’s that work?

      This is my concern.

      They’ll just call it a terrorist enclave or a pedo ring and it’s small enough that it can be disappeared.