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Bluesky blocks Mississippi due to its new age verification law


Users with Mississippi IP addresses can no longer access the Bluesky app.

Bluesky says that while it does follow the UK's Online Safety Act, it works very differently from Mississippi's approach to age verification. The service says that it doesn't have the significant resources needed to be able to build the required "verification systems, parental consent workflows and compliance infrastructure." Bluesky will now show a note to any user accessing the service from Mississippi, telling them why it's no longer available in the state.

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