Decentralized social network Mastodon says it can’t comply with Mississippi’s age verification law — the same law that saw rival Bluesky pull out of the state — because it doesn’t have the means to do so.
The social non-profit explains that Mastodon doesn’t track its users, which makes it difficult to enforce such legislation. Nor does it want to use IP address-based blocks, as those would unfairly impact people who were traveling, it says.
I’ve just been assuming that was the goal all along.
Fifteen years ago, I said on Reddit, “The U.S. is trying to become like China before China can become like the U.S.” Of course, I got buried.