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Texas SCOPE act takes effect Sunday. How does Lemmy comply? (www.click2houston.com)

submitted 2 months ago by FarFarAway@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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"The SCOPE Act takes effect this Sunday, Sept. 1, and will require everyone to verify their age for social media."

So how does this work with Lemmy? Is anyone in Texas just banned, is there some sort of third party ID service lined up...for every instance, lol.

But seriously, how does Lemmy (or the fediverse as a whole) comply? Is there some way it just doesn't need to?

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[-] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 7 points 2 months ago

I'm curious to why can't they do anything to Lemmy because it's federated.

Can they just block all the domain names of lemmy through ISP?

As for suing, can they just go after the server owners or the hosting service?

[-] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago

Good luck finding "all the domain names". IDK about suing, but unlike centralised monoliths like Facebook, you'd have to sue every instance violating your rules separately, and that's assuming you can pin down who and where to sue for each of them.

[-] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 5 points 2 months ago

And suing someone in NY for breaking Texas laws doesn't really work well.

[-] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

How does suing in a different country work, for instances in Europe? Do they actually have any leverage?

[-] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 points 2 months ago

Even less leverage than as suing in another state.

[-] rbesfe@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They can't sue, but they could legislate that ISPs have to block lemmy instance domains. That would require Texas legislators to understand Lemmy though, which will never happen.

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