geekwithsoul

Looking forward to: everything

Scared of: everything

I’m an optimist with a lot of anxiety :/

What the hell is this horseshit… from the AP?! That’s a Sunday magazine puff piece. It’s made him “grateful” and “appreciative”? No, it’s made him even more reckless and reactionary than he was in his first term.

Why do you think Mastodon is exempt from those rules? The law applies to all sites/services with a significant UK audience - some of the Mastodon .uk instances will definitely be subject to this, and because of how badly the law is written, it can apply to many more.

People can have their hardon for hating Bluesky, but they’re literally just trying to avoid being fined by the UK govt here - this wasn’t their idea.

The UK government is forcing them and all other web services to do the same. UK-hosted Mastodon servers may coast under the radar for awhile, but they’ll come for them eventually.

Rather than getting mad at Bluesky for implementing government-mandated age verification, how about actually getting mad at the UK government?

Yeah, I get pushing for Mastodon over Bluesky, but Bluesky is being forced to do this by the UK government for UK citizens so this is just exaggerated rage bait.

None of the age verification services respect privacy - that’s baked into the whole push for it. Because it’s not just about “verifying” people’s ages at a specific point in time, especially in the US, it’s about being able to prove you have in case anyone tries to sue you.

Headlines like this really need to put the emphasis on the cause, e.g. “UK Government Forces Bluesky to Roll Out Age Verification”