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Any idea how this new law will affect instance operators? (www.klfy.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The US state of Louisiana requires social media companies to get parental permission for users under 16.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

3 things.

Is there a minimum number of users for this to be effective? If so, just keeping you instance under that amou t should work.
Can they really charge someone who is not running the instance for profit? The article states that the social media owner must take "commercially reasonable" action to verify users. Technically, nothing is commercially reasonable if you aren't running a Comercial business right?
Related to 2. The article says "social media companies". Most instances aren't being ran by companies... So again this may be an out for those running instances.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From the Act:

"Social media company" means a person or entity that provides a social media platform that has at least five million account holders worldwide and is an interactive computer service.

So it’s a nonissue.

Also, is there formatting on here? I just defaulted to my old habit of > for quote text.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, is there formatting on here? I just defaulted to my old habit of > for quote text.

Yeah, same markdown as Reddit

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm curious...

Do headers work with #hashtags?

Seems they do, on Kbin at least.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

"Social media company" means a person or entity that provides a social media platform that has at least five million account holders worldwide and is an interactive computer service.

I think it's safe to say no single Lemmy or Mastodon instance will ever be covered by this particular bill.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If I ever run an instance, I'll just put a 'no persons from X region' in the sign up area.