Comment on Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test

• JustJack23@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How are you so consistently wrong?

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  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Do you think that laws don’t apply to instance owners? Why?

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    • _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I love you just assume other states or countries give a shit what some red state thinks. the vast majority of fedi instances are not in mississippi, and the fines are not criminal charges to begin with. even if they were, good luck getting a blue state to extradite over something stupid like this.

      missississpi made a law with no teeth, and fedi is going to ignore it like they should because there isn't shit some backwards US state can do.

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• Asmodeus_Krang@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t think you know how jurisdiction works.

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  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t think you do. In fact I know you don’t.

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    • _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      you don't know shit, which is why you're so confident about it. the same reason 4chan isn't worried about the age laws in the UK is the same reason Lemmy.world isn't worried about what one counsin-fucking southern yeehaw backwater in the US says is illegal.

      mississippi can't do shit to Lemmy.world, even if they threw billions into lawsuits.

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• Grenfur@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They could very easily contact the owners of the Lemmy.world instance, for example, and there goes the biggest part of Lemmy.

    You act like that is hard for them to do. It’s not.

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    • RaoulDook@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Those owners can tell them to fuck off too, since they’re not in US jurisdiction.

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    • nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Quick question, what country do you think Lemmy World is hosted in?

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• shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t think you understand how decentralization works if you think these laws could possibly be applied to the global internet.

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