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EU KIDS Act draft would force age verification on Mastodon instances

Original: The # EU # KIDSAct draft requires # ageverification for # Mastodon # instances , removing exemptions for small providers

A draft of the EU's KIDS Act would require age verification on Mastodon instances and remove exemptions previously available to small providers. Critics in the decentralised social network community say the rules conflict technically with ActivityPub, which is built around public access, and that compliance costs and moderation duties could burden small, volunteer-run servers.

Why now: Small decentralised platform operators face significant new compliance costs and technical conflicts under the proposed EU rules.

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• The # EU # KIDSAct draft requires # ageverification for # Mastodon # instances , removing exemptions for small providers. Technical conflicts arise between # ActivityPub ’s # publicaccess and # restrictedvisibility for minors. Costs and control issues affect #… · fedizen · 16

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