General_Effort

Why not?

After the recent judgments against Meta, it was predicted that there would be a crackdown on mental health topics. DDLC has been connected to a suicide in the UK.

So you know where this is going.

Speaking of which. Attie is supposed to enable anyone to create this sort of thing, although Claude Code is way overkill for the examples given.

You misunderstand. They are not exempt at all. F-Droid is exempt from collecting their identities.

The quote is from New Mexico AG Torrez. nmdoj.gov/…/new-mexico-department-of-justice-wins…

>ARC-AGI-3 What happened to ARC-AGI-1 and -2?

The New Mexico court heard how Meta’s 2023 decision to encrypt Facebook Messenger – its direct messaging platform, which predators have used as a tool to groom minors and exchange child abuse imagery – blocked access to crucial evidence of these crimes. Encryption! These monsters! In the next phase of the legal proceedings, due to begin on 4 May, the attorney general’s office will seek additional financial penalties and court-mandated changes to Meta’s platforms that “offer stronger protections for children”, said Torrez. The design feature changes the state is seeking include “enacting effective age verification, removing predators from the platform, and protecting minors from encrypted communications that shield bad actors”. And when that happens, the headline lemmings here will call it enshittification and call for even harsher rules.

I can tell, you don’t understand what’s going on and that’s scary. Unfortunately, it would still be scary if you did. But at least you would be able to have a positive effect on the world for the better.

Well. Step 1 is monitoring legal requirements around the world. In all the 50 US states, 200 countries, and whatever other kind of jurisdiction feels important. You have to age gate social media for 16+ in Australia. Some content is criminal in some countries. Some content is 18+ in some countries but not in others. Some countries require such content to be age gated, others do not. What kind of age verification is acceptable also varies… You need to constantly have your eye on new laws, legal precedents, or decision by regulators and adapt. And that doesn’t even begin to address the technological problems.

they may also be required to implement age verification They are already required. Australia is requiring them to do exactly that. It’s a safe bet that this will be ignored for now, at least outside of Australia. Suppose the fediverse wanted to comply, what do you think the volunteers running it would have to do?

I can’t really make sense of that. Do you understand that Lemmy instances are run by just some random people?

I see that you’ve changed your opinion, OP, but I still have a question. How did seeing this as positive go together with being on the fediverse? How do the volunteers running this thing cope with these demands? More generally: How can the open internet survive if every local government makes its own rules about what information or service you may or mustn’t give its citizens?

Come join the fediverse. Now illegal in Australia! It gets my attention but I don’t really see the mainstream appeal.

Sensible strategy for both sides, though I think Disney was a bit more desperate for a deal. Licensing characters makes it easier for Disney to win Fair Use cases. Meanwhile, if Fair Use is beaten back, then OpenAI may be able to finally create a moat for itself. Challengers would have to either obtain a license or employ expensive filtering. Both would make it rather harder for start-ups.

Very unlikely, in the eyes of the US court system. They have no EU physical presence, and aren’t advertising targeting EU people. That’s exactly the thing. US courts don’t care about foreign laws in the first place. They don’t care about a EU presence at all. Nevertheless, the EU demands that any websites, internet services, … that are offered to EU users follow EU laws like GDPR. If it’s in a language not spoken in the EU, then it’s probably fine. If lemmy.today declared that it was specifically for Oregonians, that would likely be fine, too. But anything in English that is offered globally, is a potential target. That should not be taken lightly. If the 4chan people travelled to UK, they would probably be arrested. They will have to watch out when they travel abroad if the country might assist the UK and arrest and arrest them. If they ever acquire property abroad, that might be seized. Fedi-servers in the EU certainly have to follow these regulations.

You know how 4chan is doing business in the UK? In the same way, lemmy.today is doing business in the EU. This ruling is not likely to have immediate consequences for the fediverse, since the GDPR is not enforced much. I don’t think it is actually impossible, as the headline claims. Platforms that have already been on the receiving of enforcement are probably fine, eg Facebook.