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.
Rather than encourage people to leave, we should encourage more enlightened people to move there, and change the political climate. A lot of states are closer to flipping than people think, and Texas is one of them.
You want to put those “more enlightened people” at risk of being Gestapo’d or killed? We need them where they can actually do a net positive effect!
First clean up the shit in Texas (or any other fascist shithole) and make it livable, then live there.
So far their efforts in various forms of voter suppression have prevented that, and at the same time more people equals more congressional seats.
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