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Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws (techcrunch.com)
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[โ€“] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

What stops

Not useful to look at it in such a black or white manner. The possibilities are presumably less, and surely not that obvious.

[โ€“] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

You're not solving any issue by losing privacy. The site itself "knowing" you're John Doe can't tell if that's correct or not. Only the government can verify that, so why give the info to the site?