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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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[–] Skavau@piefed.social 21 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

How on earth would the EU possibly do this given the entire structure is federated?

They likely don't even know what Lemmy is.