Decentralized social network Mastodon says it cannot comply with age verification laws, like in Mississippi and elsewhere, and says it's up to individual server owners to decide.
These are all very good questions, which will all need to be answered eventually, and need to be considered at the platforms move forward.
A lot of these problems could be solved if Governments and business entities started running their own Mastodon servers, and other platforms (as appropriate).
Unfortunately government and businesses are increasingly outsourcing their IT infrastructure to commercial cloud services, rather than keeping them in-house.
These are all very good questions, which will all need to be answered eventually, and need to be considered at the platforms move forward.
A lot of these problems could be solved if Governments and business entities started running their own Mastodon servers, and other platforms (as appropriate).
Unfortunately government and businesses are increasingly outsourcing their IT infrastructure to commercial cloud services, rather than keeping them in-house.