Those hosting the more popular environments. The posts would live on perhaps but target enough people and it likely becomes too small for them to care anymore, sadly.
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gedaliyah@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The more interesting question is, who would you arrest? Just ignore the law. It’s unenforceable when it comes to the fediverse.
Sprawl@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Gigasser@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Push to decentralize, that is to push users from more popular instances to less popular ones, would be good then I guess.
iglou@programming.dev 7 months ago
Yeah, considering it is not impossible to geoblock per instance, they could.
humanoidchaos@lemmy.cif.su 7 months ago
All the more reason to host anonymously.
DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I think the instance owner would be responsible, but what if the instance is out of the state?
Unless the instance owner is on a visa, with a criminal record they could get him. But otherwise it’s hard to be enforced.
Maybe they could ask the app stores to ban apps in that states. Something like that.