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- technology@lemmy.world
- privacy@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- privacy@lemmy.ml
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.
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.
It’s never really about the kids.
No just online.
Eventually it will be about restricting what we can access on the web.
It already is. Social media and algorithm manipulation have been an issue for at least a decade. All the stories about algorithm issues in foreign countries makes me wonder if they weren’t beta testing.
We’re pretty cooked.