Malicious compliance:
- “Are you too old to have flown on the Lolita Express with Epstein and Trump?”
- “Are you young enough to be employed as a ‘towel girl’ at the Mar a Lago massage parlour?”
Has Mississippi lower the age restriction to 14 years old?
This is bullshit. It should be on mississippi to block the sites or require local isps to block them. The providers are on the internet and not going out to be in mississippi. Places should wall themselves off if they can’t handle the internet.
You’re right. Imagine having to put more resources into Mississippi than Mississippi puts into anything.
How would other countries have responded if instead of building The Great Firewall, China had demanded each international company not allow Chinese citizens within China to access certain parts of their websites?
Yeah what you have at the end is sorta my thought line. You want to go all censorship at least get off your ass and do it yourself.
Or - hear me out here - it shouldn’t be on anybody to do anything because the law itself is garbage and should not exist.
But the question is, what would be a reasonable legal principle for preventing such laws generally? Mississippi is going to pass bullshit laws, but it shouldn’t be possible for the jurisdiction of any state to be anything on the entire internet.
It should fall on the parents and ISPs should have an opt in option to block adult websites.
But we all know this is more about control and data harvesting than anything else.
yup but at least then they would be leading the charge for people to leave their state.
Psssshhhh!!! Get outta here with that solid logic, and critical thinking! We don’t use reasoning in this country! We just cry and scream until everybody ELSE caves to the demands!
Have any of Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Discord implemented age-checks in Mississippi then?
If not, why is Bluesky the only one going dark there?
Bluesky is a small indie company. It can’t afford to fight the law or implement the extensive age verification the law requires. So it chose to pull the plug and leave.
FB, X, etc, have a lot more resources to implement the extensive, invasive age verification Mississippi requires and keep fighting it in court until the decision upholding it is final.
and keep fighting it in court
> implying those neofash sites would fight against orders to tHiNk Of thE cHiLdReN
I’m of the opinion that even if it is final, at some points laws are so ridiculous they must cease to be effective for all.
Lol … US law is becoming less and less relevant or meaningful as time goes on
Because Bluesky isn’t a real decentralized platform
Yeah but why aren’t the other sites implementing checks?
Money.
They will
I don’t understand. Does an instance hosted anywhere outside of this US backwater state have anything to fear from this? Why is Eugen being contacted all the way in Germany?
They’re primarily in Germany but there is some US presence too. From the join Mastodon site:
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