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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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[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This has "DMCA notice to a Russian music site" vibes. Basically, we do nothing. They have absolutely zero authority outside of Texas. If the instance is inside Texas's borders, that's a different story, but if the instance is located outside, it has no obligation to follow Texas's law. They can't do anything. They can't block Lemmy, because it's federated. They can't sue Lemmy, because it's federated. They have zero recourse, except for slam their feet on the ground and cry like a petulant child.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm curious to why can't they do anything to Lemmy because it's federated.

Can they just block all the domain names of lemmy through ISP?

As for suing, can they just go after the server owners or the hosting service?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Good luck finding "all the domain names". IDK about suing, but unlike centralised monoliths like Facebook, you'd have to sue every instance violating your rules separately, and that's assuming you can pin down who and where to sue for each of them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And suing someone in NY for breaking Texas laws doesn't really work well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How does suing in a different country work, for instances in Europe? Do they actually have any leverage?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Even less leverage than as suing in another state.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They can't sue, but they could legislate that ISPs have to block lemmy instance domains. That would require Texas legislators to understand Lemmy though, which will never happen.

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

Which to them is a normal adult behavior