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Bluesky will comply with age-verification laws in South Dakota and Wyoming after exiting Mississippi

admin1 day ago04 mins

After blocking its service in Mississippi over its new age-assurance law, the social networking startup is taking a different approach to comply with laws in South Dakota and Wyoming. Instead of requiring Bluesky to restrict access to all unverified users, users in South Dakota and Wyoming can verify their ages through the Kids Web Services’…

Mastodon says it doesn’t ‘have the means’ to comply with age verification laws

admin2 weeks ago05 mins

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…