←back to thread

Beginning 1 September, we will need to geoblock Mississippi IPs

(dw-news.dreamwidth.org)
295 points AndrewDucker | 1 comments | 27 Aug 25 20:03 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
Show context
andybak ◴[27 Aug 25 21:05 UTC] No.45045278[source]▶
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?

replies(9): >>45045295 #>>45045350 #>>45045462 #>>45045802 #>>45047760 #>>45047928 #>>45048091 #>>45050064 #>>45054184 #
Hamuko ◴[27 Aug 25 21:23 UTC] No.45045462[source]▶
Check your local laws and make sure never to travel outside your current state.
replies(1): >>45045573 #
bee_rider ◴[27 Aug 25 21:34 UTC] No.45045573[source]▶
States should come together with their neighboring states to start passing identical model legislation for this sort of stuff, if we don’t have unity across the country. It could be easy and voluntary for the states to do.

The US doesn’t have 50 different cultures with totally different values, but probably has like… 7.

replies(3): >>45045657 #>>45045919 #>>45047643 #
gapan ◴[27 Aug 25 22:06 UTC] No.45045919[source]▶
> States should come together with their neighboring states to start passing identical model legislation for this sort of stuff...

Yes! Make a union of states! How should we call that? States Union... Union of States... United States! Yeah, that should work.

replies(4): >>45046317 #>>45046435 #>>45050063 #>>45053761 #
bee_rider ◴[27 Aug 25 23:11 UTC] No.45046435[source]▶
Getting ~340M people to agree on anything is too hard, and now a good chunk of us seem to think the government can’t do anything productive at all. IMO, it would be nice to have an in between layer to do bigger things.
replies(2): >>45047174 #>>45055008 #
1. ultrarunner ◴[28 Aug 25 17:54 UTC] No.45055008{3}[source]▶
Who says you have to have 340 million people agree? Congress's approval rating hovers around 20% for years and years— they haven't been interested in the will of the people for a long time.