All Fediverse and Mastadon admins DO have the means. They just won't because they are porn addicts that umbrella questionable and illegal content.
The fediverse consists of about 20,000 Mastodon instances, with who knows how many Friendica, Pleroma, Misskey, Peertube, Funkwhale, Ghost, etc. instances.
The entire point of the fediverse was to bypass any kind of censorship, be it good or bad. There's literally no central entity, by design. That would be necessary to create, pay for, and maintain a database of age-verified users. Even if you had such a database - say maintained by the state where it was required - getting every instance on the fediverse to subscribe to it would be a Sisyphean task. Single and niche user instances would probably just ignore it as there's no requirement to upgrade to the latest branch that would be supportive of a blocklist.
That doesn't even count the few Gnu Social and the tiny number of (I think there's one left) StatusNet instances still online.
Should I point out that time that the gov propped up 1000’s of tor nodes to exploit the exit point weakness?
So propping up 5000-10000 mastodon instances would be simple work in all reality.
Is that not plausible?
It would be easy enough, yes. Would they do it? What’s the benefit to them of propping up a private 25 person bookwyrm instance?
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