Comment on Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test
Grenfur@pawb.social 2 hours agoImmune, 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.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 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.
nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
Quick question, what country do you think Lemmy World is hosted in?
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Those owners can tell them to fuck off too, since they’re not in US jurisdiction.