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.
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.
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.
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.
Yes…we should balkanize the UK and US.
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.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/protecting-children/age-checks-for-online-safety--what-you-need-to-know-as-a-user
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.
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.
Such NSFW images and videos aren’t hosted on other instances. Not mine, and not yours, sadly.
heh, come
Yup, we have.