@dansup it isn't about any one website being able to block visitors from mississippi. it's about mississippi being unable to block every single noncompliant website for their citizens. there's no reason to comply in advance, because they can't retaliate meaningfully unless there are centralized chokepoints.

@trwnh @dansup

the app stores are centralised chokepoints, and the mastodon org both operates the largest server as well as maintain the most popular apps. mississippi regulators actually have serious leverage here

@laurenshof @trwnh @dansup who up clienting their server? this is seriously what AP client to server and verifiable credentials were made for, so that each server and each instance didn't have to separately implement age checks for each jurisdiction on earth 1 by 1 (or N by N as we say in standardsland)

@laurenshof @dansup they can at most go after specific domains. you can just ignore mississippi entirely and people in mississippi will probably still be able to access the web if they really want to -- this only affects large well-known services to the extent that they can be fined (which they don't have to pay) or censored (which can be bypassed by proxy or vpn -- and every fedi server that maintains its own cache is essentially a proxy)

@by_caballero @laurenshof @dansup you can also just *not* verify people's age. you can fight these laws just like the SOPA/PIPA blackouts in 2012. i don't see why anyone should just roll over and accept the dystopia without a struggle