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Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought. (youtu.be)
submitted 20 hours ago by qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world
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TLDW:

Brazil is requiring OS level age verification by march 17th, 2026.

New York about to vote on a law that would "require all manufacturers of internet-enabled devices, operating systems, or application stores to conduct commercially reason-able and technically feasible age assurance for users at the point of device activation."

In order to “incentivize” age verification, The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that they will ignore COPPA violations for software performing age verification.

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[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 21 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Who wants this?

[–] Jumbie@lemmy.zip 31 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Christians. Republicans. ICE. MAGA.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 6 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

What about the UK, Australia and the European Union, then?

[–] Jumbie@lemmy.zip 13 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The evil Christians don’t stop their nonsense at borders. That shit is universal, man.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

My argument is that it's not Christians. That is a simplistic view of the stakeholders.

[–] Jumbie@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago

Take it far enough and you’ll always unmask a Christian that thinks the internet is sin.

[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 2 points 7 hours ago

The UK has had "Big Brother" since before you could still run straight through a pre-9/11 US airport terminal and tearfully declare your love to your childhood sweetheart before they boarded that plane.

All things considered, life isn't that scary here.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 18 points 13 hours ago

Groups that want to remove anonymity from the internet.