I’m kind of out of the loop but I saw for example Bluesky was blocking Mississippi residents from accessing Bluesky: https://bsky.social/about/blog/08-22-2025-mississippi-hb1126
Anyone know what the plan is for lemmy instances and other forums?
I don’t support unfunded and illegal mandates so my instance will never do age verification. I dare the fuckers to try to enforce it.
Wish I was able to add more but in still learning about all that
yeah I was wondering what people on nostr or on here were thinking should be what HC does or what other platforms should do in response
Im wondering if it only applies to like Europe
It did but if you check the OP link as an example, some U.S. states have been passing laws to try to regulate social media (because allegedly lots of children are exposed to NSFW content via social media platforms)
Oh shit. Ok imma look more into it, I think I’ve heard similar recently
Typically they’ll set up the laws with a floor, because otherwise some kid setting up phpbb would need age verification and that’s not gonna fly.
Dam that’s true. I just got bluesky trying to get meto verify my age shits weird.
It may be the case that they would have to deal with this sort of thing on an instance by intance basis, right, and a lot of these instances are too small to warrant state level attention, so it might not be a big deal.
I think that could work initially but I don’t know how sustainable that approach is
I’m thinking maybe in practice they will end up dialing the scope of this back some to make it more workable
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I don’t really know but am guessing this will end up being a little difficult in practice and that it will force even people supportive of the move to amend the bills with changes to make them more workable
