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Texas SCOPE act takes effect Sunday. How does Lemmy comply?(www.click2houston.com)

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“The SCOPE Act takes effect this Sunday, Sept. 1, and will require everyone to verify their age for social media.”

So how does this work with Lemmy? Is anyone in Texas just banned, is there some sort of third party ID service lined up…for every instance, lol.

But seriously, how does Lemmy (or the fediverse as a whole) comply? Is there some way it just doesn’t need to?

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The answer? Block Texas

Not joking. If suddenly hundreds or thousands of sites would become unavailable. It wouldn’t last a week

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A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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doesnt that happen every time it rains in texas?

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RaoulDook@lemmy.world
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That didn’t work with porn, so it’s not a good idea for less popular websites.

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Good_morning@lemmynsfw.com
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Honestly only a couple of the big porn sites, of it hit more big things it’d cause more uproar, imagine if Facebook went down for a day

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Flax@feddit.uk
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Who cares about porn

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nagaram@startrek.website
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Enough that there’s a serious spike in VPN sales during the porn age restriction wave.

I doubt NordVPN and friends would see that if EVERY single lemmy instance got banned.

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bradorsomething@ttrpg.network
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Why would anyone mess with texas at this point?

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ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world
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Cause it’s funny

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michaelmrose@lemmy.world
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Why would we not? Why would we listen to a damn thing they have to say?

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