US EditionBluesky Blocks Mississippi Users over Age Verification Law
Bluesky cites the costly and privacy-intrusive requirements of Mississippi's law, which demands age and parental consent verification for all users, risking $10,000 fines per violation.
- Bluesky blocked access to its social media service for all users in Mississippi on Friday due to the state's new age verification law HB 1126.
- The law mandates that all platforms confirm each user's age and secure parental approval for minors before allowing access, with penalties reaching as high as $10,000 for every instance of non-compliance.
- Bluesky stated compliance would force collecting sensitive personal data and tracking minors, raising privacy and free speech concerns while requiring resources their small team lacks.
- The company emphasized that the law surpasses its intended child safety objectives, restricts free expression, and unfairly impacts smaller platforms, clarifying that their stance pertains specifically to the Bluesky app operating on the AT Protocol.
- The blockage will remain until courts decide HB 1126's fate, highlighting challenges for emerging social platforms facing broad age verification laws.
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Bluesky blocks Mississippi due to its new age verification law
Users with Mississippi IP addresses can no longer access the Bluesky app. The decentralized social media network has explained in a post that Mississippi's new age verification law for social networks "would fundamentally change" how it operates, and it wouldn't be possible to comply with its small team and limited resources. Bluesky says that while it does follow the UK's Online Safety Act, it works very differently from Mississippi's approach…
Bluesky blocks Mississippi over its age verification law
Bluesky, a decentralized-ish Twitter clone for people who liked Twitter before Elon Musk turned it into a Nazi bar, is no longer accessible in Mississippi. The state's "age verification" law–a mass-surveillance program posed as "think of the children" safety regulation (previously)–went live and Bluesky has chosen to suspend service there rather than bear the costs of compliance. — Read the rest The post Bluesky blocks Mississippi over its age v…
Ed Note | State Law Compels BlueSky to Block Mississippi IPs
After Mississippi’s social media age-verification law prompted BlueSky to block access to Mississippi IP addresses, Ashton Pittman writes that the Mississippi Free Press is “now having to grapple with how to ensure we can stay connected with all of our readers, many of whom follow us on BlueSky.” The post Editor’s Note | BlueSky Blocks Mississippi IPs, Citing State’s Age Verification Law, Free Speech and Privacy Concerns appeared first on Missis…
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