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Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test (techcrunch.com)
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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Immune, no, insanely hard to police? Hell yeah. The thing with these laws is that it's pretty easy for MS to sue Reddit and force them to comply. They have one centralized location to complain to. You can't just call John Lemmy and have him comply. Would it be impossible for a state government to contact every single instance owner? maybe? But they're not going to do it. Even if they made an attempt the instances hosted in other countries couldn't give less shits about some southern US state.

    Nostr is a whole other beast... it's currently littered with things illegal in just about every country on the planet but that shit's still there so I can't imagine MS could do anything there either.

    TLDR: Immune, no. Neigh impossible to enforce, yes.

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    If I remember right .world is hosted in Finland. Who likely doesn't care about MS politics. They'd have to lobby the Finnish government, who, if they did capitulate would start an awful president. So they won't as MS has 0 authority there. But, lets assume that they did, or that MS went to all of the ISPs and had them block .world. That's thousands of dollars, hundreds of hours, lawyers, and paperwork. And the .world users in MS just download their config files and move to .de, .ca, or .uk. And now MS gets to repeat the entire process at three more countries who couldn't care less about their laws. The would waste unfathomable dollars and hours chasing this mouse and get nowhere. So they just won't. It's posturing for the big tech companies. Same as with porn. The big 3 or 4 will just block the state and move on, and the rest and those hosted in other countries will continue like nothing happened. The conservatives will claim they won 'for the children', nothing will really change.

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