Or multiple questions. Does it mean I now have to check age of people who read my blog if their IP is within France range? Or if their language is French in user agent string? Or law demands browsers to send special digitally signed header of I am adult or I am minor kind? Does it apply to requests coming from Fediverse in behalf of accounts belonging to people this law applies to?
Generally speaking, to what extent the age verification law like French one applicable to France?
We, software developers and other IT specialists, often speak about dencentralization and censorship resistance, privacy or whatever else, that sounds important for those who understands how all this work.
But for like 99.99% people it is something like a mumbo jumbo of some secret society or ritualistic jargon of some conspiracy theorists group.
If it is necessary ever to get someone aboard of e. g. Fediverse or Matrix/Element, it would require to go completely different way.
Software we offer must solve some real and specific day to day problem. Like, making some daily workflow easier. Or avoid some repetitive task. Or allow to make something with less clicks. Or allow to do something what WhatsApp, Instagram & Facebook can’t, even these people keep using them out of habit.
Find a problem to solve, not software to install (or write!).
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