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Is the new blocking age verification page the kind of innovation we should expect from BlueSky?

Counterpoint - its a legal requirement in several parts of the world now (and rapidly expanding), how do you think they should handle it whilst you know...still being able to exist?

It was supposed to be decentralised though, meaning there would be no central party to pursue.

What makes you think a nation state level entity can't pursue in this case...?

The same reason even nation state actors have not managed to eradicate torrents. You take one tracker down, another pops back up.

It kinda of confuses me when use the term "nation state" instead of just "state". For example Canada is not a nation-state but surely they are powerful and important enough that they could also pursue this kind of case.

This has been a pet peeve of mine for some time now. It seems people just feel smarter using a fancy terms instead of "a state" or "a government".

Sure, which is why it's perfectly possible to work around those restrictions using any of the alternative apps that show the same data (but don't implement the legal restrictions).

It is. The block is on the client level, not the network.

How long until it KYC at bluesky becomes a centralized requirement?

It's not a legal requirement in my country. Thus they are volunteering to go extra mile in the implementation of the repressive laws.

I think they should resist as much as possible. Yes it was a legal requirement to gas the Jews and it was illegal to hide them.

Who do we cheer now? Those who abided to the law or those who broke it?

I don't know why people have to be like this. Are you not capable of asking the question without the aggressive snark? Just be cool for a second and maybe you'll get an actual conversation where you learn something.

I live in a country where this is not a legal requirement. Yet my account was blocked due to no birthdate.

This makes me have zero respect for those who volunteer to go the extra mile in the implementation of repressive laws.

Let me explain how to ask this without being an ineffective rage dork: 'I don't have age verification laws in my country but was blocked anyway. Why is that?'

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