And it only isolates the non-VPN-using people of these states. Their kids/grandkids have long since figured out how to bypass these idiotic restrictions.

[–] BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago

VPN not required, there are enough sites ignoring the laws that we have no need to care.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 15 points 9 months ago

If only there was some form of microblogging social media where it wasn't a single company that owned all the servers, but instead it was some kind of... I dunno, confederation of servers that all used the same protocol. Then if there's some dumb local law, locals could run their own servers, or find someone brave enough to defy the dumb law, or who knows what. Without that a single platform decides that the dumb local law is dangerous to their business and refuses to serve those users then those users have no options.

[–] wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Idiots are falling for the trap. This is what they want! Porn was just a bullshit pretense.

[–] pishadoot@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

The Mississippi law in question actually requires age verification for social media sites, not porn.

The supreme court has chosen not to pause the law going into effect until it gets onto their docket, but they've signaled that they think it's likely unconstitutional. I'm not going to get into how weird that is, but that's where we are right now. For the time being the law stands until it's struck down, if that's what happens.

It's a case that has two opposing legal frameworks: first amendment rights, and the reduced rights afforded to minors. It will be an interesting one that, if the Mississippi law is upheld it will have some REALLY significant downstream effects in law as relates to the internet.

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And here we start. It’s only going to get worse folks. Hold onto your Fediverse!

[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Technically bsky is a federated platform, and part of the fediverse. You can host your own instance (I do, although I don't really use it)

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but when people refer to BlueSky without specifying that, it’s the core server they’re referring to. When that goes down, I’d be surprised if that platform outlasted Mastodon.

[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 3 points 9 months ago

fair, and I agree. wish more people were actually on activitypub. ATproto is fine but not ideal imho

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 points 9 months ago

Technically bsky is a federated platform

By the strictest definition of "technically", perhaps, but not in any meaningful sense is it actually federated.

[–] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world -5 points 9 months ago

Idiots; they need only require the users to declare that they are not in Mississippi.