Beginning 1 September, we will need to geoblock Mississippi IPs

Between this and the UK Online Safety Bill, how are people meant to keep track?

Launch a small website and commit a felony in 7 states and 13 countries.

I wouldn't have known about the Mississippi bill unless I'd read this. How are we have to know?

Any physical business has to deal with 100s of regulations too, it just means the same culture of making it extremely difficult and expensive to do anything at all is now coming to the online world as well, bit by bit.

If you have a restaurant in Italy and some 18 year old from Mississippi orders a glass of wine - you can happily and lawfully serve it.

You don’t need to know all the laws of Mississippi to serve such customer, or any laws from anywhere else other than Italy.

Tbf the Italian restaurant would likely serve you wine if you were 14, and the owner is probably underreporting cash earnings to avoid taxes, and sells bootleg cigarettes without the tax seals from behind the counter...