Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet
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Lemmy will be pressured into age verification also and most hosts will crumble. $50M per caught infraction is wild.
We gonna end up going back to libraries. Which actually would be cool as fuck. Like Yentl when all those dudes are hanging out in a big ass room talking philosophy. It'll re-spark the postal service. Live music will thrive. Coz everyone will be like fuck the internet, we'll do it live.
Lemmy will be pressured into age verification also and most hosts will crumble.
Then just self host
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Lemmy will be pressured into age verification also and most hosts will crumble.
Then just self host
ah ha! Guess that's how we beat the system.
People would need to sub to your instance though for you to post content right?What would the pros and cons be?
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No one needs the internet outside of work. The moment I'm forced to show my ID or get my face scanned, I'm done for good.
No one needs the internet outside of work.
As someone with a disability (and no car), the internet has played a massive role in allowing me to live independently, which in turn has a profoundly positive impact on my mental health. There are a wide variety of circumstances in which the internet has enhanced life experience - let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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I think we need to organise a massive campaign for people to cancel their entire Isp for at least a month, I'm betting all this would get reversed almost overnight.
Anything but that I fear they win and we all end up on the darknet.
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Good luck doing that.
People can't even delay their non-essential shinies to make a statement against price gouging/raising bullshit.. You think they're gonna willingly sacrifice something like internet? for a month?
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Not much more than the www.
By proportion maybe?
(Just guessing, Iβm not on there)
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By proportion maybe?
(Just guessing, Iβm not on there)
Yeah, it's all relative. It's like the www before corporate takeover. Like the old www, you need to have some sense on where to go and where to avoid.
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No it's not, maybe for some mainstream websites. Saying the "whole internet" is clickbait hyperbole.
Australians will soon be subjected to mandatory age checks across the internet landscape, in what has been described as a huge and unprecedented change.
Search engines are next in line for the same controversial age-assurance technology behind the teen social media ban, and other parts of the internet are likely to follow suit.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-11/age-verification-search-engines/105516256
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It's not about actually protecting children. It's about data.
The purpose is to protect the mainstream media.
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Can you have age verification and still be anonymous on the Internet? (Fixed fukted typo)
Yes, but the legislation specifically rules out that technology. The purpose is to remove anonymity.
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They mean most of the internet for most people
Only the vast socially relevant parts of the internetelite nerds who use lemmy will be able to circumvent
if the snobs are fine, why care?
those people kvetching about how the endless September ruined everything will have their wish
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ah ha! Guess that's how we beat the system.
People would need to sub to your instance though for you to post content right?What would the pros and cons be?
People would need to sub to your instance though for you to post content right?
I think there is some way to automatically forward your content but I don't self host and am not an expert.
Pros are that while you could be "defederated", you can't be banned. You make any decisions and could also let others use your system.
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Can't tell if meth addict or rage bot.
Can tell that you're a nonce, chomo
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elite nerds who use lemmy will be able to circumvent
if the snobs are fine, why care?
those people kvetching about how the endless September ruined everything will have their wish
Well if they enslave everyone else, we are going to feel it too, no matter what cracks of the system we hide in
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The US government created the internet
It is so complicated that you're both correct and incorrect. US government added to it, yes. I'd argue the fundamental work was independent researchers from multiple countries (UK, USA, France). I'd argue the critical infrastructure was multiple non-profits.
Also the question is "what exactly is the beginning of the internet". Is it usenet? Telnet? Arpanet?
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Can tell that you're a nonce, chomo
Meth addict.
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Meth addict.
Ask yourself why you are so triggered when I call you a chomo do some introspection
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Gotta show me the relevant RFC for BGP first.
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No it's not, maybe for some mainstream websites. Saying the "whole internet" is clickbait hyperbole.
It's the Internet. There are internets, but just one Internet.
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No one needs the internet outside of work.
As someone with a disability (and no car), the internet has played a massive role in allowing me to live independently, which in turn has a profoundly positive impact on my mental health. There are a wide variety of circumstances in which the internet has enhanced life experience - let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
I'm sorry. I suppose I should have said "I don't need the internet outside of work."
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No it's not, maybe for some mainstream websites. Saying the "whole internet" is clickbait hyperbole.
For some people "the whole internet" is like half a dozen websites.
