"Mississippi has a backwards-ass age verification requirement. We're not allowed to let users in from Mississippi. Verify you're not in Mississippi"
this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2025
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States should just create a firewall, and not shift burden to supply chains.
Well they should not do that either, but if they're going to, they should shoulder the burden.
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Some lawyer on Capitol Hill: "Hmm..."
Not if, when.
Who knows, the same demand may be given of certain other federated social media sites in a few months.
So in this whole embarrassing dick measuring contest Eugen was wrong and Mike Masnick was right, then. Turns out "real decentralization" or not, Masto/Fedi's structure doesn't do anything to bypass this nonsense.
This is not new. People constanty claim AP and Fedi have benefits or features just for being decentralized that they absolutely do not have, but I have to admit I'm kinda shocked that Eugen will do that exact thing without any more self-awareness than the average Masto user. He should know better.
Well even if mastodon.social complies, there are many many other instances to choose from, from all different countries
and even other similar platforms like Sharkey or Mbin that work with Mastodon
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