Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online

Re:Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online by svnt on Friday January 24, 2025 @10:34AM (#42814090)

I’m sorry but business success aside, how else do you propose to do it? Require them to go outside and take a panoramic video including their face that somehow also captures third-party information about the date and time and then feed it into geoguessr?

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Re:Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online by harimau777 on Friday January 24, 2025 @10:46AM (#42814224)

I think the problem is that laws that are trying to force morality on people.

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Re:Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online by ryandrake on Friday January 24, 2025 @11:03AM (#42814421)

The general problem is that web site X doesn't know if user Y lives in state Z. And most of the realistic ways to allow them to know this are huge PII disasters waiting to happen. This has nothing to do with morality. If states wanted to ban HN, it would be just as ridiculous. Using IP address is about as pointless as using your mobile phone's area code.

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Re:Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online by numpad0 on Friday January 24, 2025 @04:55PM (#42817299)

No, the problem is unchecked moral panicking. IP geoblocking is mitigation.

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Re:Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online by Digory on Saturday January 25, 2025 @08:42AM (#42821579)

All laws force morality on people.

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Re:Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online by itake on Friday January 24, 2025 @10:19PM (#42819155)

Couple thoughts:

1/ if the company can’t meet the regulations, it can’t exist.

2/ if there is wiggle room of “as long as you tried your best, then it’s ok”, then requesting gps location, nearby wifi nodes, and banning traffic from data centers, then that would be better.

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