They'll probably VPN to mainland Europe to sign up for their account.
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what blatant lies.
Wanker loicense
When I was 6, I earned my pen licence at school.
Now as an adult, who do I need to prove my proficiency to in order to receive my wanking licence?
The wank auditor will see you now.
Oh god I'm so nervous for my wanking practical test. I only just passed the wanking theory!
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What prevents you from uploading a picture of someone else?
What prevents you from uploading a picture of someone else?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_you%27re_a_dog
It gets you to turn your head. It's not just a selfi.
Meh, just upload a dick pic.
Hurensohn
oh if it isn't a greedy little piggy
You must show your id to access NSFW subreddits!
"oh no!"
changes www.reddit.com to old.reddit.com on the adress bar
"anyways"
Tho i remember when they removed compact reddit. But i think if they remove old.reddit.com, people will really start to leave, so they'll try to get rid of it quietly.
I do wonder how long they'll let old.reddit.com stay. I assume they don't want it but are worried about the backlash
Maybe. They could just let it rot. Let it break over time. Thus pushing people onto the new site.
Kids everywhere making deepfakes.
Well, that law aged like milk.
Come to the fediverse we have porn?
Yes, the federated model might make it somewhat harder for governments to enforce these kinds of laws. Until those governments catch up. 🙁
John Perry Barlow was right: https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
balkanization of all types always seems to be the answer to these sorts of dystopian laws and i hope that it happens despite evidence contrary.
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I seem to remember only <7 instances allowing porn posts when I joined up. As a practical matter, I don't remember the last time I saw porn posted from any instance besides lemmynsfw.com
TL;DR: Porn on Lemmy is as centralized and easilly squashed by regulation as anywhere else.
Yeh, but it's available through your instance even though it's hosted there.....
Unsure how that is meant to work legally.
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If this law says in place and is actually enforced all fediverse instances will need to start verifying age for UK users too.
Is that so? Why would anyone with an instance from another country give a shit about UK law? Honest question, I have no clue about these kind of laws.
The answer is if they don't theyre supposed to be blocked in the UK. Which... Who cares. Everyone on here can use a vpn
They'll get blocked in the UK. Which, to be honest for a non profit fediverse instance isn't going to be a bad thing as they'll loose traffic alongside any donations. Expect UK based instances to start doing something for their users. But there's lots of other verification options they could use.
But then UK instances won't be able to federate with non-UK instances, right? Can this even be enforced?
I can't see why that would be the case. The UK users using the UK instance would still have had their ages checked. As far as I understand it doesn't matter where the adult material on the site has come from. It's not a law to try to protect against the creation of material by people who aren't verified, but rather try to reduce the amount of under 18s accessing material.
Ah, of course! Classic brain fart.
The law is, yes. Your thought just bit misguided.
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Several years ago, I tried making an Instagram account. It was locked immediately (on first log in). They good me to upload a selfie where I was also holding up my driver's license.
This is still the case
With 72 years it is insulting for me to have to prove my age and the only thing they will prove will be my middle finger 😡
This is horrible, I remember they did the same thing with Facebook marketplace (only for everything not only NSFW lol) although you can just use a random AI generated face.
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