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The US state of Louisiana requires social media companies to get parental permission for users under 16.

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[–] tallwookie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

who enforces it? lol this is doomed to fail

[–] BurnTheRight@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

The Louisiana legislature is infested with conservatives who are barely literate. The chances those back-water right-wing dipshits were able to cobble together a functional and enforceable law regarding technology is slim.

[–] hellequin67@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

To be honest I also think the same question in regards for GDPR and UK inbound legislation regarding porn and how those might affect the fediverse in general.

[–] Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I would just say its a good thing that no social media companies are running Lemmy instances, then.

[–] elboyoloco@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

3 things.

  1. Is there a minimum number of users for this to be effective? If so, just keeping you instance under that amou t should work.

  2. Can they really charge someone who is not running the instance for profit? The article states that the social media owner must take "commercially reasonable" action to verify users. Technically, nothing is commercially reasonable if you aren't running a Comercial business right?

3.. Related to 2. The article says "social media companies". Most instances aren't being ran by companies... So again this may be an out for those running instances.

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

take the Pornhub approach and just block any Louisiana IP …

[–] tooting_lemmy@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or just force all Louisiana onto a server not hosted in US. What could they do?

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

step it up a notch, only host content aimed at Republicans and conservatives