Lee DunaAug 29, 2025

Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws

https://lemmy.nz/post/27484636

Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws - Lemmy NZ

>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.

Show threadUnderpantsWeevilAug 29, 2025
There’s going to come a point at which the Feds/States will lean on the ISPs to handle the censorship for them. We’ve had people all over the Nat Sec system staring at the “Great Firewall of China” and asking themselves “Can we get something like this over here?”
Show threadhatsa122

Its already happening in Spain. Everyday there is a football match from the spanish league (thats from Friday to Monday, both included) LaLiga orders the ISPs to shutdown everything that uses Cloudflare under the pretext that the shady websites that offers pirated football use their services, killing easily 1/3 of the national traffic for like 4h.

Why the ISPs comply? The biggest ISP of the country (Movistar) also happens to be the main one that showcase legal football.

How is this legal? The judge that authorised that and the president of LaLiga have been friends since forever.

Eventually this will go the European court where will rule this was illegal and anti-constitutional all along and give a Spain a fine (the the citizen will have to pay ofc), and revoke this bullshit, but untill then we are screwed. Nothing will happens to LaLiga, or the corrupt judge, or Movistar, fucking privileged and corrupted bastards.

Aug 30, 2025 at 8:08amWeb
Show threadCommanderCloonAug 30, 2025
TBH, ISP blocking is easily circumvented with DOH
Show threadTuxophilAug 30, 2025
Wow, that’s fucked up.
Show threadhumanoidchaosAug 30, 2025
Yeah, the soccer industry is full of some of the scummiest people on earth.
Show threadbiofaustAug 31, 2025

Whoa whoa whoa! Callate chico!

You copied this from us Italians where we have the friend of Berlusconi providing the State with a censorship system (the Piracy Shield), allegedly exactly for the same reason since 2023.

Let’s give the right Fascists what is theirs.

Show threadbirdwingSep 2, 2025
So, in other words, corruption.