• IcePee@lemmy.beru.co
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    2 months ago

    Well the devil is in the detail. However, what appears is being mooted is it will only affect big social media corporations. A Lemmy instance is hardly big business. Not that I’m discounting creeping regulation moving into the fediverse.

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      2 months ago

      It’s impossible to specifically target Facebook and Snapchat without also affecting Lemmy and YouTube comments.

      They’re all social media with minor UI differences.

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        2 months ago

        It really isn’t, you just go the way the recent EU laws have gone and write them such that only large services (with over x million users or similar) are under obligation to comply and implement age gates and the like.

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        2 months ago

        Not so sure that it can’t be tailored to big businesses. Regulations carve out exceptions all the time based on employee count, annual turnover, customer count (hits), etc