Age restricting content or even platforms have been building momentum in several countries around the world. The UK is facing backlash over it's "protecting the children" movement of restricting access to many sites from within the country, to Australia banning anyone under the age of 16 to access social networks including YouTube. Now we can add Mississippi into the mix that is forcing social networks to either comply with their rules or be fined $10k per user for each infraction.
This is just another state within the USA who are looking to lock down users access to these platforms under the guise of saving the children which, we all know is not the case for this at all. Control over a person's access to information that could be deemed unsafe from the current regime is becoming this tinderbox for a lot of this groundswell of platform lockdowns.
Bluesky recently blocked anyone from Mississippi access to the platform, this is driving yet another wedge into what someone is able to view over the internet. This further brings up the question of what a truly decentralized platform could offer the people an easy, free to access, platform in order to reach out and interact with out people.
The company that makes the Bluesky social app announced last week that it would block access to its service in the state of Mississippi rather than comply with the new age verification law. In a blog post, the company explained that, as a small team, it lacked the resources to implement the substantial technical changes required by the law, and it raised concerns about the law’s broad scope and potential privacy implications.
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Bluesky says it would block access to its service in the state of Mississippi, rather than comply with the new age verification law.
Age restricting content or even platforms have been building momentum in several countries around the world. The UK is facing backlash over it's "protecting the children" movement of restricting access to many sites from within the country, to Australia banning anyone under the age of 16 to access social networks including YouTube. Now we can add Mississippi into the mix that is forcing social networks to either comply with their rules or be fined $10k per user for each infraction.
This is just another state within the USA who are looking to lock down users access to these platforms under the guise of saving the children which, we all know is not the case for this at all. Control over a person's access to information that could be deemed unsafe from the current regime is becoming this tinderbox for a lot of this groundswell of platform lockdowns.
Bluesky recently blocked anyone from Mississippi access to the platform, this is driving yet another wedge into what someone is able to view over the internet. This further brings up the question of what a truly decentralized platform could offer the people an easy, free to access, platform in order to reach out and interact with out people.
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Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social...