Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test
Bluesky says it would block access to its service in the state of Mississippi, rather than comply with the new age verification law.
puts decentralized social networks to the test
No it doesn't. Fucking ignore them. The fuck are they gonna do? Write you a strongly worded letter? It's Mississippi, they're not educated enough to even manage that.
The fuck are they gonna do?
Arrest random teenagers and claim their browser history or installed app list marks out as pedophiles
If the instance is in the States it will have issues.
Why is that though, are other US states in any way bound by the laws of Mississippi? They have no representation in MS.
What are they gonna do? Start fining the owners of the instances……
Decentralised doesn’t mean “no one in charge” - it means lots of people in charge of lots of parts. The fediverse would be the easiest social media network to bend to the governments will because it’s not billion dollar companies running it, and just the threat of fines or a lawsuit will make any instance owner shit their pants.
Nostr and fediverse: hold my beer
I don’t think you understand how laws work if you think the fediverse is immune to things like this.
Immune, no, insanely hard to police? Hell yeah. The thing with these laws is that it's pretty easy for MS to sue Reddit and force them to comply. They have one centralized location to complain to. You can't just call John Lemmy and have him comply. Would it be impossible for a state government to contact every single instance owner? maybe? But they're not going to do it. Even if they made an attempt the instances hosted in other countries couldn't give less shits about some southern US state.
Nostr is a whole other beast... it's currently littered with things illegal in just about every country on the planet but that shit's still there so I can't imagine MS could do anything there either.
TLDR: Immune, no. Neigh impossible to enforce, yes.
Its so ironic how roghts are erroded under the guise of child protection, while they protect pedophiles.
Sidenote: when did Masnick become such a choad?
