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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[–] hatsa122@lemmy.world 13 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

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 4-6h.

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 this and the president of LaLiga have been friends since forever.

Eventually this will go the European court where they will rule this was illegal and anti-constitutional all along and give a Spain a fine (the the citizens have to pay), and revoke this bullshit, but untill then we are screwed. Nothing will happens to LaLiga, the judge, or Movistar, fucking privileged and corrupted bastards.

[–] Tuxophil@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Wow, that's fucked up.

[–] humanoidchaos@lemmy.cif.su 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Yeah, the soccer industry is full of some of the scummiest people on earth.

There's a lot of money to be made off of idiots who don't know any better for doing pretty much nothing.

[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 3 points 12 hours ago

TBH, ISP blocking is easily circumvented with DOH