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

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• _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  puts decentralized social networks to the test

  No it doesn't. Fucking ignore them. The fuck are they gonna do? Write you a strongly worded letter? It's Mississippi, they're not educated enough to even manage that.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The fuck are they gonna do?

    Arrest random teenagers and claim their browser history or installed app list marks out as pedophiles

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    • FalseTautology@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you stay in Alabama past the moment that you realize you live in Alabama you get what you deserve. I’m surprised animals and insects are still willing to live there.

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  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What are they gonna do? Start fining the owners of the instances……

    Decentralised doesn’t mean “no one in charge” - it means lots of people in charge of lots of parts. The fediverse would be the easiest social media network to bend to the governments will because it’s not billion dollar companies running it, and just the threat of fines or a lawsuit will make any instance admin shit their pants.

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    • plz1@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not if the instance isn’t subject to their jurisdiction.

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    • _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      hey it's the dude who was being a transphobe awhile back! what have you been up to, you scrappy little facsist? been being shitty to any minorities lately?

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    • Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s like that time they tried to ban torrent sites, sure a few will fall, however more or more will rise up.

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  • miked@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If the instance is in the States it will have issues.

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    • dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Why is that though, are other US states in any way bound by the laws of Mississippi? They have no representation in MS.

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• shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nostr and fediverse: hold my beer

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  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t think you understand how laws work if you think the fediverse is immune to things like this.

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    • Grenfur@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • Asmodeus_Krang@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t think you know how jurisdiction works.

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    • JustJack23@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How are you so consistently wrong?

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    • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• Mangoholic@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Its so ironic how roghts are erroded under the guise of child protection, while they protect pedophiles.

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• deathbird@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sidenote: when did Masnick become such a choad?

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