Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws | TechCrunch
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Decentralized social network Mastodon says it cannot comply with age verification laws, like in Mississippi and elsewhere, and says it's up to individual server owners to decide.

Decentralized social network Mastodon says it can’t comply with Mississippi’s age verification law — the same law that saw rival Bluesky pull out of the state — because it doesn’t have the means to do so.

The social non-profit explains that Mastodon doesn’t track its users, which makes it difficult to enforce such legislation. Nor does it want to use IP address-based blocks, as those would unfairly impact people who were traveling, it says.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    There’s going to come a point at which the Feds/States will lean on the ISPs to handle the censorship for them. We’ve had people all over the Nat Sec system staring at the “Great Firewall of China” and asking themselves “Can we get something like this over here?”

  • limer@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I agree with mastodon, even though eventually Texas will enact similar legislation forcing me to use a vpn to read it

    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Woudn’t it be smarter to just leave the hellhole that is Texas? Either to the north or to the south, leaving is a win.

      • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Sometimes there’s family or other things you just can’t take with you. Support structures you might not have somewhere else. Friends and neighbors. Mutual aid.

        There can be circumstances that override that. But honestly, the more that flee. The easier it is to get what the fascists want. And at best you’re only helping yourself short term. Because no matter where you go. They will come for you if they can.