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by globular-toast
17 days ago
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That's no good if broad laws are passed that require age verification. It could be interpreted as even SSHing into a server that doesn't verify your age is illegal. Some decades ago it would have seemed too stupid to actually happen. Now I'm not so sure. |
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If the plan is to provide "social media" to millions of people via SSH then yes one could forsee such an interpretation
These laws are targeting so-called "social media" provided by "Big Tech"
But there are anonymous comments across the web trying to portray this as something else. These comments are hilariously nonsensical
The cause of this legislation is the activity of so-called "Big Tech"
If there is collateral damage to others then that is the fault of "Big Tech". This is the cost of the Silicon Valley "business model"
There is no requirement that the internet be used to create "social media" or something else with large audiences^1 for advertising
Although that may be a Silicon Valley VC requirement
1. For example, the Malaysia legislation sets a threshhold of eight million users. List of SSH servers with over eight million users: