The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Reddit £14.47 million (over $19.5 million) for collecting and using the personal information of children under 13 without adequate safeguards.
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Reddit £14.47 million (over $19.5 million) for collecting and using the personal information of children under 13 without adequate safeguards.
At some point those same authorites are coming for Lemmy and the metaverse generally.
Sure. The problem is we’re too decentralized to make enforcement practical. They can try to come for, say, lemmy.world if they want, that’s totally fine. That won’t get them very far with all of Lemmy though. Too many servers can be housed in places where western law cannot easily reach, and regulating just those servers located in western countries accomplishes very little.
Advantages of being structured differently.
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The pirate bay, many big private trackers, and Anna’s archive are still up despite being felony copyright infringement and directly pissing off fortune 500 companies
We can set it up to be insulated from them though. For one thing, we should have instances with clear rules, an appeals process, and a final decision to be done by a trial of a jury of verified users or the like. To prevent the feds from getting their hooks into the enforcement, and or prevent moderator abuse, which is what drives half of the people to lemmy to begin with.
Idk about setting it up to not have to do age checks, other than setting instances in areas where they are not beholden to the authorities and disguising their own identities as administrators?