Comment on Bluesky blocks Mississippi users over age verification law

• joyjoy@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If a minor hosted their own instance for friends, would the state fine them $10,000/pop?

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  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yes

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  • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Something I do wonder about these laws: could a person self-hosting a private fedi instance that only they have an account on, argue that they meet age verification requirements by virtue of personally knowing the age of the only user? Or at that point would the whole network of federated servers count as the “platform” rather than the instance?

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    • joyjoy@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This kills the fediverse.

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      • _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        this doesn't kill the fediverse. mississippi can't do shit to you if you aren't in mississippi unless the state you're in agrees to cooperate with them. and that's only after they subpoena your hosting provider, which might not even cooperate with them at all if they are outside US jurisdiction. and if you go through cloudflare? that's another subpeona from a corporation that doesn't like revealing information about their users and has gone to federal court on many occasions to fight both state and federal governments.

        any state that doesn't have one of these laws on the books is unlikely to decide to extradite you for something that isn't illegal where you live, especially since it's not a criminal charge.

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      • TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Missisippi lawmakers are too idiotic to know what the reducers is and their law enforcement is too busy to learn what a fediverse is to enforce it

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      • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        And that’s where you’d be wrong. It’s the fediverse’s time to shine, really.

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  • sep@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I assume the hoster would know the age of his friends? Or is the law more spesific in how the verification must happen.

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