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

submitted 2 months ago by FarFarAway to c/asklemmy

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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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[–] buddascrayon 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I expect the usage of VPNs in Texas to skyrocket exponentially in the next couple of months.

[–] Neon 7 points 2 months ago

Don't think so

I'm petty sure everyone already started using VPNs when Pornhub was banned

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Don't comply with tyrants.

[–] Furbag 2 points 2 months ago

Social media is probably a very poorly or very narrowly defined term. Either they called out Facebook, Reddit, Snapchat, etc by name or they gave some broad description of social media that could apply to everything from Facebook all the way down to somebody's Vbulletin forum and this will be unenforceable for the vast majority of websites. Compliance is likely voluntary for the little fish in social media. I imagine that they aren't even aware that Lemmy exists.

[–] Thcdenton 2 points 2 months ago

Good luck Texans. Nordman will heed your call

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