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Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test (techcrunch.com)

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[–] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 86 points 4 days ago (23 children)

puts decentralized social networks to the test

No it doesn't. Fucking ignore them. The fuck are they gonna do? Write you a strongly worded letter? It's Mississippi, they're not educated enough to even manage that.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The fuck are they gonna do?

Arrest random teenagers and claim their browser history or installed app list marks out as pedophiles

[–] FalseTautology@lemmy.zip 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

If you stay in Mississippi past the moment that you realize you live in Mississippi you get what you deserve. I'm surprised animals and insects are still willing to live there.

[–] goatinspace@feddit.org 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Lets relocate all residents of Mississippi near your location.

[–] FalseTautology@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago

I would like nothing more than to indoctrinate them into my cult.

[–] miked@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If the instance is in the States it will have issues.

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Why is that though, are other US states in any way bound by the laws of Mississippi? They have no representation in MS.

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[–] Mangoholic@lemmy.ml 15 points 4 days ago

Its so ironic how roghts are erroded under the guise of child protection, while they protect pedophiles.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nostr and fediverse: hold my beer

[+] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au -9 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I don’t think you understand how laws work if you think the fediverse is immune to things like this.

[–] Grenfur@pawb.social 19 points 4 days ago (1 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.

[+] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au -14 points 4 days ago (3 children)

They could very easily contact the owners of the Lemmy.world instance, for example, and there goes the biggest part of Lemmy.

You act like that is hard for them to do. It’s not.

[–] Grenfur@pawb.social 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au -2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

You act like the government doesn’t absolutely love wasting money on stupid shit like this lol. It’s their bread and butter.

Also you’re overlooking, or are unaware of, things like GDPR and what other countries are doing in forcing foreign countries to apply their laws.

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Those owners can tell them to fuck off too, since they're not in US jurisdiction.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au -3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I forgot governments don’t co-operate with foreign governments. GDPR certainly doesn’t have to be followed outside the EU, right?

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 0 points 16 hours ago

That is correct

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Quick question, what country do you think Lemmy World is hosted in?

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au -5 points 4 days ago

Completely irrelevant.

[–] Asmodeus_Krang@infosec.pub 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't think you know how jurisdiction works.

[+] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au -16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don’t think you do. In fact I know you don’t.

[–] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

you don't know shit, which is why you're so confident about it. the same reason 4chan isn't worried about the age laws in the UK is the same reason Lemmy.world isn't worried about what one counsin-fucking southern yeehaw backwater in the US says is illegal.

mississippi can't do shit to Lemmy.world, even if they threw billions into lawsuits. which they can't, because since republicans can't balance a budget to save their lives, mississippi can't even afford to give the people who are forced to live there clean drinking water. but here you are, thinking the state that's last in education, in the "first world" nation that's last in education , is going to start going around the world and making them listen to what some racist white descendant of plantation owners thinks is moral. fucking hilarious. I live in the US myself, and I'm not even going to listen to this law for my instance.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au -3 points 4 days ago

You might want to do some reading about things like GDPR :). You also need to do some reading on how governments cooperate with other foreign governments.

[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How are you so consistently wrong?

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't think you understand how decentralization works if you think these laws could possibly be applied to the global internet.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au -2 points 4 days ago

I don’t think you understand how much 99.99% of people are going to absolute shit their pants when they get governments ordering them to block content or be fined and sent to jail, especially when their country’s government will likely cooperate with the foreign government ala GDPR/DSAR.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 0 points 4 days ago

Sidenote: when did Masnick become such a choad?