Age verification in the Fediverse: How the KIDS Act challenges Mastodon
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The EU’s planned KIDS Act poses technical and organizational challenges for the Fediverse. However, it is unlikely to be the end, as some critics warn.
  • kbal@fedia.io
    92·
    4 hours ago

    A proposal for mass surveillance of all Internet users named the “KIDS ACT” huh. What a clever name for such a thing. Did the Americans write it, or did the same people who write bills for the Americans write it?

    • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      5·
      3 hours ago

      This kind of thing has much less tradition in the EU than the US. First of all, European Union legislative texts are actually properly called “directives” or “regulations” (this in particular is a proposed regulation), putting “Act” in their titles is a very recent trend. And then, naming laws with these kinds of acronyms has so far not been common in the EU at all, that is clearly an imitation of US bills.

      • kbal@fedia.io
        4·
        1 hour ago

        Yeah, I thought so. Billionaire-backed proposals to spy on everyone have so much in common around the world.