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So, does Mississippi's age verification also apply to Twitter, Truth Social, Rumble, etc.? Curious what these right-wing platforms are doing about age verification. Surely Mississippi's attorney general will go after those platforms too...

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It does, but almost all the major platforms/companies are members of NetChoice, a trade organization that fights this sort of thing. This presser from Bluesky doesn't mention it, but the case is "NetChoice vs Mississippi", so that's how involved they are to this.

Here's their write up on the Mississippi case: https://netchoice.org/netchoice-v-fitch-mississippi/

And obligatory Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetChoice

Truth Social, X and Rumble are all backed by the very people who wrote the law, so will not be sued. Get Out Of Jail Free cards.

the thing about political power is it changes.

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