Nostr and fediverse: hold my beer
I don’t think you understand how laws work if you think the fediverse is immune to things like this.
How are you so consistently wrong?
Do you think that laws don’t apply to instance owners? Why?
I love you just assume other states or countries give a shit what some red state thinks. the vast majority of fedi instances are not in mississippi, and the fines are not criminal charges to begin with. even if they were, good luck getting a blue state to extradite over something stupid like this.
missississpi made a law with no teeth, and fedi is going to ignore it like they should because there isn’t shit some backwards US state can do.
Immune, no, insanely hard to police? Hell yeah. The thing with these laws is that it’s pretty easy for MS to sue Reddit and force them to comply. They have one centralized location to complain to. You can’t just call John Lemmy and have him comply. Would it be impossible for a state government to contact every single instance owner? maybe? But they’re not going to do it. Even if they made an attempt the instances hosted in other countries couldn’t give less shits about some southern US state.
Nostr is a whole other beast… it’s currently littered with things illegal in just about every country on the planet but that shit’s still there so I can’t imagine MS could do anything there either.
TLDR: Immune, no. Neigh impossible to enforce, yes.
They could very easily contact the owners of the Lemmy.world instance, for example, and there goes the biggest part of Lemmy.
You act like that is hard for them to do. It’s not.
Quick question, what country do you think Lemmy World is hosted in?
Completely irrelevant.
puts decentralized social networks to the test
No it doesn’t. Fucking ignore them. The fuck are they gonna do? Write you a strongly worded letter? It’s Mississippi, they’re not educated enough to even manage that.
The fuck are they gonna do?
Arrest random teenagers and claim their browser history or installed app list marks out as pedophiles
If you stay in Mississippi past the moment that you realize you live in Mississippi you get what you deserve. I’m surprised animals and insects are still willing to live there.
Lets relocate all residents of Mississippi near your location.
I would like nothing more than to indoctrinate them into my cult.
What are they gonna do? Start fining the owners of the instances……
Decentralised doesn’t mean “no one in charge” - it means lots of people in charge of lots of parts. The fediverse would be the easiest social media network to bend to the governments will because it’s not billion dollar companies running it, and just the threat of fines or a lawsuit will make any instance owner shit their pants.
Not if the instance isn’t subject to their jurisdiction.
this guy is one of those people who thinks everywhere is under US jurisdiction.
FreedomAdvocate? Yeah, username checks out…
