2026-09-15 07:28 UTC
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@patrickleavy@mastodon.social 2026-09-15 07:36
@_elena@mastodon.social urgh... Is there any way to do #ageverification privately and securely? It doesn't look like it. Didn't the EU's solution get hacked on day one?
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@jaj@mastodon.social 2026-09-15 07:50
@_elena@mastodon.social It's a catastrophe and will accomplish nothing except empower the police state
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@gavinkarlmeier@mastodon.social 2026-09-15 07:59
@_elena@mastodon.social As far as we know right now (and that is very little!), the EU plans to change it’s way to define “social media” (as they call it: social media plus, lol): apps that use infinite scrolling, for-you-algorithm and excessive push-notifications. so by that the Fediverse would be fine, but some games wouldn’t.
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@thisislieven@c.im 2026-09-15 08:00
@_elena@mastodon.social Supposedly VDL will also speak about it tomorrow (have your popcorn ready? - they sure are hyping the SOTEU). According to the Europe Morning Post it will be discussed in the Commission today and Thursday presented by both VDL and Virkkunen. It will apply to socials, gaming and AI. Unless something leaks my guess is we just have to wait. The ambiguity may also be strategic for a long time to come though.
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@Zugschlus@zug.network 2026-09-15 08:11
@_elena@mastodon.social Will the ever stop using kids as excuse for removing privacy from the Internet?
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@remywhisker@mastodon.social 2026-09-15 09:08
@_elena@mastodon.social Won't help but hurt kids (especially lgbtq+ kids) . Absolute privacy nightmare. Yep completely on track with how things have been going. God forbid we actually penalize the companies that deliberately make addicting apps. Instead let's punish the users. 🤡
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@felichsdakatze@mastodon.social 2026-09-15 09:25
@_elena@mastodon.social They like corpo web being defacto gate keepers because t&cs allow them to collect nd share data govs cannot. They will continue to attack and chip away at foss as much as possible to frustrate self hosting if nothing else.
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@studybunny@mastodon.social 2026-09-15 10:39
@_elena@mastodon.social since Australia's crack-down, it didn't require me to prove my age for access to Mastodon, but SpaceHey was struck from the web. It seems they only care about the Big Guys (Meta, Google, Discord)
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@Chancerubbage@mastodon.social 2026-09-16 00:33
@_elena@mastodon.social @wellingtonrock@mastodon.social besides collecting ID directly to government enforcing abuse of citizens via surveillance, data leak and surveillance capitalism? Not much. Although they should allow confirmation by a trusted in between where individual privacy is valued such as the device platform. Or parental controls. It used to be a non issue, as one had to be of legal age to have a credit card. And banks at least at one point valued privacy.