• youngalfred@lemmy.zip
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    6 days ago

    Bit of an ask to give only a month’s notice on having to verify every Australian user’s age, technique left up to you (but if it’s not good enough, massive fines!)

    • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works
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      6 days ago

      I wouldn’t call them “massive fines” since, as per the article, they can be of up to $32M, which, for a company that makes billions, are merely operating costs.

      I agree, tho, seems too short for a notice requiring something so big.

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      6 days ago

      Probably the easiest/cheapest way is to just use an existing identity provider and require all users to sign up through there. Wonder how that will affect the userbase…

      I for one welcome our future aussie comrades. Maybe aussie.zone can do a donation drive for more hardware or smth?

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        6 days ago

        We got government run id checking services already where it calls an api, I put my details in then the government tells the site the result, but not everyone has suitable id.