Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.
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Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
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Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
@bsky.app And this is why real decentralization matters. There is nobody that can decide for the fediverse to block Mississippi.
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@bsky.app And this is why real decentralization matters. There is nobody that can decide for the fediverse to block Mississippi.
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Yep. People running fedi instances, just like people running Bluesky, have to decide whether they want to take that risk -- and how much geoblocking decreases the risk.
The tradeoffs may well be somewhat different here but it's still very messy, especially for fedi instances either based in the US or with financial ties here (like Mastodon's 501(c)(3)). Bluesky's high-profile, so they might be a more tempting target; then again they fedi isntances have a lot less resources to fund a legal defense, so maybe we're more tempting targets? There's no way to know at this point.
