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Rather than comply with an onerous, invasive and crippling supreme court decision affirming a Mississippi law that would require social media platforms to implement age verification for all users, obtain consent for minors and track the age and status of everyone, Bluesky has decided to block all IP addresses from the state trying to access the site. Although a further example of hysteria and moral panic, Mississippi’s new regulatory framework and the UK Online Safety Act (see previously, see also) are vastly different and the former requires a digital services provider to collect and maintain government identification and other sensitive information for all users and vet them before granting ingress to anyone, whereas under the latter the platform does not know or track their identities and who might be under the age of majority (a pretty bold demand of a backwards jurisdiction condoning child marriage and baby beauty pageants) and adolescences are only restricted from certain sensitive material and services. Bluesky will remain unavailable for Mississippians until legal challenges are resolved.