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'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives (www.techradar.com)
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[–] sunbeam60@feddit.uk 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Making you aware that the age requirement probably comes from the EU. Seeking another EU based solution might introduce the same requirement.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

it's from the uk and texas.

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You've missed some news my friend, it's an EU problem too, just the legal and privacy lawyers are fighting much harder so it keeps getting pushed away from going into law.

~~I'll try and find some links for you in a sec.~~

Edit: link - https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20251120IPR31496/children-should-be-at-least-16-to-access-social-media-say-meps

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

of course it's an eu problem too, but it was the uk that pushed through undercooked regulation that forced everyone to comply.

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cool, but you did say it's not an EU problem

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 22 hours ago

no i didn't, i simply noted that the uk and texas had implemented age gating laws.

[–] sunbeam60@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s from everywhere tbh. But the EU is certainly the largest, most forceful block in getting age verification pushed through.

The only upside is that the EU proposal demands ZKP, whereas all others are happy to accept/prefer “prove who you are”. That’s obviously an insane privacy nightmare.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 1 day ago

the eu hasn't put anything to law yet, which at least the uk has. but yeah, of course they're not blameless.