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.

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[–] gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 54 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Last time i checked "states rights" didn't mean the right to impose your laws on people or businesses running out of other states.

If anyone from Mississippi wants to use our services I'm totally ready to ignore any and all laws that don't acknowledge to sovereignty of the net.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 18 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Last I checked, “rights” now means “my right to control you”

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

That's always what it meant to Republicans.