• bl4kers@lemmy.ml
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    7 days ago

    Correct, I don’t really want 12-year-olds commenting here either. Do you? Genuine question

    Though Lemmy instances are largely public. You don’t need an account to view their contents. So that’s pretty different from Discord

    For the record, I do think the laws will apply to Lemmy instances

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        6 days ago

        Interesting. I think most users would assume they’re talking to other adults and might change their language or behavior if they thought they were conversing with children

        Age is anything but arbitrary from a law perspective. With these laws there is no expectation of privacy in regards to age. I’d argue there never was, it was just poorly enforced and got normalized