Decentralized social network Mastodon says it cannot comply with age verification laws, like in Mississippi and elsewhere, and says it’s up to individual server owners to decide.
I mean, kind of…
That means individual server owners have to decide for themselves if they believe an age verification component is a necessary addition.
The laws are written for capitalism. Not an open source code base that lets literally anyone create an instance of their own.
So “Mastodon” might have lawyers and shit, but a tiny instance with 100 people would just get shut down, or maybe even charges.
It sounded great at first, till I got to the part they were just passing the buck to smaller instances.
I mean, it kind of works, right? With tons of small instances, the government is playing whack-a-mole
Yeah. But the moles still get whacked…
