Bluesky is a small indie company. It can't afford to fight the law or implement the extensive age verification the law requires. So it chose to pull the plug and leave.

FB, X, etc, have a lot more resources to implement the extensive, invasive age verification Mississippi requires and keep fighting it in court until the decision upholding it is final.

Because Bluesky isn't a real decentralized platform

Or - hear me out here - it shouldn't be on anybody to do anything because the law itself is garbage and should not exist.

You're right. Imagine having to put more resources into Mississippi than Mississippi puts into anything.

How would other countries have responded if instead of building The Great Firewall, China had demanded each international company not allow Chinese citizens within China to access certain parts of their websites?

Has Mississippi lower the age restriction to 14 years old?

You are breaking the internet with this non sense.

I think that's their goal. Conservative types benefit when people have limited access to information

The internet has been broken for at least a couple decades. The Fediverse is about the closest thing to the old internet.

And good luck resetting your ID.

I really don’t want ISPs policing internet traffic more than they already do. I think you’re right though. Router level second network filtering that blocks VPNs. Block the kids MAC addresses from the primary. This needs to be on parents.

That same kid could go to a nudy video store and steal something. They could get into all sorts of 18+ physical stuff.

They're primarily in Germany but there is some US presence too. From the join Mastodon site:

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