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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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 23 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The more interesting question is, who would you arrest? Just ignore the law. It's unenforceable when it comes to the fediverse.

[–] Sprawl@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago

Those hosting the more popular environments. The posts would live on perhaps but target enough people and it likely becomes too small for them to care anymore, sadly.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 38 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

We need more federation and P2P in everything.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 15 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

P2P! I have been screaming this into every forum at reddit since last piece of shit president was president. See? This is why!

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

What P2P solutions exist that need more attention? I know PeerTube does some neat P2P stuff to keep server load down (if they ever had the traffic...)

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 75 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

nobody should comply

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 17 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

Would have been the smart move for business, too. Just don't comply until everyone else caves and then sue the state for favoring some businesses.

[–] rapchee@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

but then they wouldn't get all the user information

[–] Sprawl@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Sadly they were all tripping over each other for a taste of that sweet extortion money.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 hours ago

What's wrong with your own personal 2M band radio network? Or just bring back CB culture. It's in the name: Citizen's Band...

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 32 points 8 hours ago

Does the law in Mississippi apply to the geographic region and airspace, or only residents?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 229 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

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?"

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 13 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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 1 points 3 hours ago

I like you

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 29 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

staring at the “Great Firewall of China” and asking themselves “Can we get something like this over here?”

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.

[–] StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

I've been saying some combination of China and Russia personally. It's easier to parallel now after China took over Hong Kong. Those poor kids fought so hard.

People need to understand the fascists were watching those instances too and they learned from them. The last 15 years have been like a road map for how to handle dissent and protests in a way that keeps you in power.

[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 65 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

It's never really about the kids.

[–] StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

No just online.

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[–] hisao@ani.social 107 points 14 hours ago (51 children)

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!

[–] ezyryder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Confirm your URL? Domain is registered but not linking back to a website.

[–] ezyryder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

it's still in the works friend!! Making the whole thing from scratch with some cameron's world esque aesthetics and a unique landing page. I can definitely let you know when its live :) appreciate the interest.

[–] sylvieslayer@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Hi I have no idea what any of that means. Please let me join this class.

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