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Decentralized Social Network Mastodon says it cannot comply Mississipi’s age verification law – the same law which rivals saw Pull from the state of Bluiceki – Because there is no way to do it.
Social non -profit explains that Mastonon does not track its users, which makes it difficult to apply this national law. Or it does not want to use IP address-based blocks, because they will unfairly affect the travelers, say it.
The statement follows a lively back and front conversation At the beginning of this week In Founder and CEO of Mastoadon Eugen Roacho and Bloozky Board member and journalist Mike Masonic. In a conversation published on their respective social networks, Rochko claimed, “There is no one who cannot decide to block the Federation’s Mississippi.” (The Federation is the decentralized social network These include Maston and other services and driven by it Activation Protocol.)
“And that’s why true decentralization is important,” said Rochko.
Pushing behind Masonic, Mastodeon’s separate servers, such as Mastodon. Social, asking why the user’s fine will not be over $ 10,000 for the use of the law to disobey the law.
This During our report On this exchange, the community-funded non-profit company Maston GGMBH did not respond to any request to comment.
On Friday, however, a statement with TechCrunch shared a statement with Techchen to clarify its location that Maston’s own servers specify at least 16 years to sign up for his services, but it has no “way to apply age verification” on its services.
That is, the Mastodon software does not support it. The Mastoadon 4.4 Release In July 2025, the surroundings of these fields have been partially added to the sign-up to the minimum age and other legal properties for the sign-up. The new feature allows user administrators to check the age of the users during the sign-up but the age data is not stored.
This means that individual server owners have to decide for themselves if they believe that any age verification material is a necessary addition.
Nonprising says that Maston is currently unable to provide “direct or operational assistance” to a wide set of Mastodon server operators. Instead, it encourages owners of mastodons and other federation servers to use the resources online, e.g. Iftas Library, Which provides confidence and protection assistance for volunteer social network moderators. The non -profit server suggests the laws to monitor the laws that are located and managed by the admins.
Mastodon noted that it was “not tracking the principles and operations of separate server run by Mastonon” or capable of commenting “
One of the reasons for the establishment of Mastone is the social media of various jurisdictions that are distinguished from the United States, “people can choose to keep their accounts on a Mastoadon server whose principles meet their needs.
