Somewhere in a government building in the UK: We did it, Patrick…
Headlines like this really need to put the emphasis on the cause, e.g. “UK Government Forces Bluesky to Roll Out Age Verification”
If they did this here, I’d just stop using bluesky. I’m 41. But I have no interest in verifying ages online. We’ve all seen how poorly companies handle intetnal security.
Just yesterday McDonalds had their entire database of applications compromised because someone tried the password 123456.
Bluesky would be dropped instantly.
This isn’t about age verification. It’s about getting your ID and tying your (probably illegal but yet to be proven) online activity to it. Much like the firewall of China.
All wrapped up nicely in the disguise of “age verification”
If it works the way they claim it is indeed very private.
It doesn’t.
According to whom?
Is the system opaque? Does someone else hold the private encryption keys? Could unencrypted data leak from the company and expose users?
If any of those answers are “yes”, then assume it’s already compromised by a government and unsafe.
According to your father ulrich.
Canadian Senate Bill S-209 aims to do the same in Canada. These idiots really want our data so bad.
This pisses me off, governments mandating control. Would this affect Lemmy or any fediverse software one day?
it already does it’s the reason why lemmy.zip isn’t accessible in the uk (though it still federates to other servers)
Not feasibly, no. If a centralized platform like bluesky refuses to abide by the laws in a given country, their platform can be made inaccessible in that country. Trying to do that to countless activitypub-compliant servers wouldn’t be practical since you van just hop to another server.
Do you think they won’t try? I mean both the Tory and previous Labour admins tried to ban encryption.
