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EU KIDS Act poses age verification challenge for Mastodon

Original: Age verification in the Fediverse: How the KIDS Act challenges Mastodon

The EU's planned KIDS Act would require age verification online, and heise online reports it creates serious technical and organizational difficulties for Mastodon and the wider Fediverse, where decentralized servers have no central way to check users' ages. The article argues that despite critics' warnings, the law is unlikely to spell the end of decentralized social networks, but compliance questions remain unresolved.

Why now: Ongoing EU legislation on age verification is prompting debate about its impact on decentralized social networks like Mastodon.

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• Age verification in the Fediverse: How the KIDS Act challenges Mastodon · heise online

  The EU’s planned KIDS Act poses technical and organizational challenges for the Fediverse. However, it is unlikely to be the end, as some critics warn.

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