Comment on Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test
Skavau@piefed.social 1 month ago
Have any of Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Discord implemented age-checks in Mississippi then?
If not, why is Bluesky the only one going dark there?
Bluesky is a small indie company. It can’t afford to fight the law or implement the extensive age verification the law requires. So it chose to pull the plug and leave.
FB, X, etc, have a lot more resources to either implement the extensive, invasive age verification Mississippi requires or keep fighting it in court.
I’m of the opinion that even if it is final, at some points laws are so ridiculous they must cease to be effective for all.
Lol … US law is becoming less and less relevant or meaningful as time goes on
Tbh my first thought was “ehh people can just vpn around it then” which is basically just saying its easily circumventable and i know no instance of legal issues for those that do.
Still a net negative for that state though and the more laws and circumvemtion becomes more common the more people are thrown into the precarius class (see immigrants in the US now).
and keep fighting it in court
> implying those neofash sites would fight against orders to tHiNk Of thE cHiLdReN
They will if tHiNkInG oF the ChiLdReN threatens to meaningfully affect their bottom line
Why would it affect their bottom line other than positively? Corporations love fascism because it can make it mandatory for people to buy from them, among other things.
joyjoy@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Because Bluesky isn’t a real decentralized platform
Skavau@piefed.social 1 month ago
Yeah but why aren't the other sites implementing checks?
thejoker954@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Money.
Auth@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They will
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 1 month ago
🤝🙂↕️
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Sl00k@programming.dev 1 month ago
There are other Appviews on the atProto that have chosen not to implement checks that have full access to Bluesky posting/data.