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The question is prompted by the age verification app that the EU has just presented.

Some EU countries want to ban social media for young people. If that were to happen, what then?

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

If they make the fediverse illegal, then it will be illegal. There's not much that can be done about it. Obviously we cannot do "age verification."

It would look really bad, politically, so they probably won't go that far right now — they'll just slowly push things in that direction until it seems feasible.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

There's not much that can be done about it.

According to many lemmings the elegant solution is to simply ignore the law entirely and pretend that will be ok