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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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[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 9 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

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Some lawyer on Capitol Hill: "Hmm..."

Not if, when.

Who knows, the same demand may be given of certain other federated social media sites in a few months.

[–] badbytes@lemmy.world 13 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

States should just create a firewall, and not shift burden to supply chains.

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[–] MudMan@fedia.io 10 points 21 hours ago (15 children)

So in this whole embarrassing dick measuring contest Eugen was wrong and Mike Masnick was right, then. Turns out "real decentralization" or not, Masto/Fedi's structure doesn't do anything to bypass this nonsense.

This is not new. People constanty claim AP and Fedi have benefits or features just for being decentralized that they absolutely do not have, but I have to admit I'm kinda shocked that Eugen will do that exact thing without any more self-awareness than the average Masto user. He should know better.

[–] the_mighty_kracken@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Interesting that you think Eugen is the bad guy here.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 3 points 20 hours ago

"The bad guy" is not a thing I've thought about anybody since I was 12 years old.

I think Eugen jumped onto a common talking point among Fedi people when they try to highlight the difference between Masto and Bluesky and he didn't think it through.

Like I said, I'm surprised he messed that up. He certainly should know the impression he was giving wasn't accurate.

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