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Decentralized social network Mastodon says it cannot comply with age verification laws, like in Mississippi and elsewhere, and says it's up to individual server owners to decide.

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.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    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.worldEnglish
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      2 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.