• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      The fuck are they gonna do?

      Arrest random teenagers and claim their browser history or installed app list marks out as pedophiles

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        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.

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        Why is that though, are other US states in any way bound by the laws of Mississippi? They have no representation in MS.

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      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.

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      I don’t think you understand how laws work if you think the fediverse is immune to things like this.

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        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.

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          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.

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            Those owners can tell them to fuck off too, since they’re not in US jurisdiction.

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            If I remember right .world is hosted in Finland. Who likely doesn’t care about MS politics. They’d have to lobby the Finnish government, who, if they did capitulate would start an awful president. So they won’t as MS has 0 authority there. But, lets assume that they did, or that MS went to all of the ISPs and had them block .world. That’s thousands of dollars, hundreds of hours, lawyers, and paperwork. And the .world users in MS just download their config files and move to .de, .ca, or .uk. And now MS gets to repeat the entire process at three more countries who couldn’t care less about their laws. The would waste unfathomable dollars and hours chasing this mouse and get nowhere. So they just won’t. It’s posturing for the big tech companies. Same as with porn. The big 3 or 4 will just block the state and move on, and the rest and those hosted in other countries will continue like nothing happened. The conservatives will claim they won ‘for the children’, nothing will really change.

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              You act like the government doesn’t absolutely love wasting money on stupid shit like this lol. It’s their bread and butter.

              Also you’re overlooking, or are unaware of, things like GDPR and what other countries are doing in forcing foreign countries to apply their laws.

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        I don’t think you understand how decentralization works if you think these laws could possibly be applied to the global internet.

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          I don’t think you understand how much 99.99% of people are going to absolute shit their pants when they get governments ordering them to block content or be fined and sent to jail, especially when their country’s government will likely cooperate with the foreign government ala GDPR/DSAR.