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

submitted 3 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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[-] null@slrpnk.net 42 points 3 months ago

Lemmy is absolutely social media.

[-] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

Nuh uh! I'm a Sovereign Netizen and I'm not driving social engagement, I'm just a traveler on the information superhighway!

[-] tyler@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago

Social engagement has nothing to do with social media. If you define anything with social engagement as social media then you literally are calling the entire internet social media.

[-] FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They said its not but, I think the argument they were trying to make was that it's not enforceable.

[-] tyler@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago

https://programming.dev/comment/12069336

[-] tyler@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago

It’s absolutely not. It has none of the hallmarks of social media (personal relationship, feed of user activity, likes and shares). It’s a forum. Forums existed for decades before social media. If you define forums as social media then you are defining every comment section on every site, including news sites, help sites, things like stack overflow even, as social media which is clearly ridiculous and so broad as to be a useless definition.

[-] null@slrpnk.net 0 points 3 months ago

Unless you think Lemmy is somehow functionally different from Reddit, then you can argue with Wikipedia.

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