Decentralized social network Mastodon says it can’t comply with Mississippi’s age verification law — the same law that saw rival Bluesky pull out of the state — because it doesn’t have the means to do so.
The social non-profit explains that Mastodon doesn’t track its users, which makes it difficult to enforce such legislation. Nor does it want to use IP address-based blocks, as those would unfairly impact people who were traveling, it says.
I agree with masterdon, even though eventually Texas will enact similar legislation forcing me to use a vpn to read it
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
There’s going to come a point at which the Feds/States will lean on the ISPs to handle the censorship for them. We’ve had people all over the Nat Sec system staring at the “Great Firewall of China” and asking themselves “Can we get something like this over here?”
hisao@ani.social 5 weeks ago
This is why it’s perfect time to get some tech literacy regarding tor, i2p, yggdrasil, and shadowsocks. It’s not perfect solution to use tech to circumvent restrictions that shouldn’t be there in the first place, but sometimes it really comes to that point and it’s really nice to have all systems ready!
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
Arguably though, at some point they’ll just say “if we can’t read your traffic, you can’t use the Internet.”
Which still isn’t a problem, as I’m sure we can come up with a means to encrypt traffic to make it look entirely legitimate. But it’s going to take a while.
ezyryder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
I’m making a website to aggregate all of this information. Pro net neutrality, anti censorship laymens guide. Still in the works but its called zoracle.life.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
I’ve tried a few times to check out i2p, it seems to take hours of leaving it running to even get to the point where you can very slowly and inconsistently load even the official pages though.
FailBetter@crust.piefed.social 5 weeks ago
The situation does seem quite desperate. I'd like to heed your call. Please advise on most critical systems I should have ready right now today please. I know have a lot of work to do and must stay efficient
moseschrute@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I have absolutely no idea what any of that is after tor
sylvieslayer@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Hi I have no idea what any of that means. Please let me join this class.
IllNess@infosec.pub 5 weeks ago
If this really about protecting kids, they could’ve done opt in blocking at the ISP level. Just a few new fields with ISPs and they have products that can take care of this already.
This is really about tracking every little thing you do online.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
Eventually it will be about restricting what we can access on the web.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It’s never really about the kids.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’ve just been assuming that was the goal all along.
Fifteen years ago, I said on Reddit, “The U.S. is trying to become like China before China can become like the U.S.” Of course, I got buried.
mitch@piefed.mitch.science 5 weeks ago
All my IT and InfoSec friends have called me alarmist for suggesting even the possibility of a GFW of America, but every day that passes, it looks more and more likely to happen, doesn't it?
Start practicing circumvention techniques now, y'all, while it's still legal and cheap to do so. Learn amateur radio. Learn Meshtastic. Learn all the different censorship-resistant VPN technology out there. Host your own websites or services for friends, family, or your community. It doesn't make it impossible, but it does make it hard, and fascism is nothing if not lazy.
Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
I like you
hatsa122@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Its already happening in Spain. Everyday there is a football match from the spanish league (thats from Friday to Monday, both included) LaLiga orders the ISPs to shutdown everything that uses Cloudflare under the pretext that the shady websites that offers pirated football use their services, killing easily 1/3 of the national traffic for like 4h.
Why the ISPs comply? The biggest ISP of the country (Movistar) also happens to be the main one that showcase legal football.
How is this legal? The judge that authorised that and the president of LaLiga have been friends since forever.
Eventually this will go the European court where will rule this was illegal and anti-constitutional all along and give a Spain a fine (the the citizen will have to pay ofc), and revoke this bullshit, but untill then we are screwed. Nothing will happens to LaLiga, or the corrupt judge, or Movistar, fucking privileged and corrupted bastards.
Tuxophil@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Wow, that’s fucked up.
CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
TBH, ISP blocking is easily circumvented with DOH
biofaust@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Whoa whoa whoa! Callate chico!
You copied this from us Italians where we have the friend of Berlusconi providing the State with a censorship system (the Piracy Shield), allegedly exactly for the same reason since 2023.
Let’s give the right Fascists what is theirs.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
So, in other words, corruption.
vane@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Country level internet and passport control before you visit another country domain is inevitable. That’s just like people want it or at least sociopaths.