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Methyldopa also is not a MC trigger, but hasn't been available in the US for ages because suppliers just can't get it, sigh

Oh yeah. Four years and counting I've been doing this, I think!

Ha! I know that feeling

Without, but with an emotional support Rosie

It's so fucking depressing. If there's not a measurable rise in the teen suicide rate in Australia within the year it'll be because of how easy it is to circumvent

If you come back and tell me you got the thing done, I will also give you a cat pic!

It was irritating, but it only took 10 minutes!

Recruitment post! Now recruiting: DW users who would be interested in the possibility of helping us out in one of these legal challenges, now or future!<br /><br />If you would be open to the idea of potentially filing something with a court talking about the ways that the restrictions that Dreamwidth would have to i

I forget if you have a DW account or not, but if you do: we're looking for users who would be willing to possibly file a declaration too, if your state pulls some fuckshit and hearing from you as well as us would help! Indicate your interest here: dw-advocacy.dreamwidth.org/815.html

And here's the litigation center's front page, which has a full list of the suits they've filed, even the ones we didn't participate in because we weren't covered by the law: netchoice.org/litigation/

Netchoice picks their own cases (and then each member decides whether or not to participate by filing a declaration) but they have a pretty strong track record with these laws so far. Here's the list of the ones we've contributed to with docket links: dw-advocacy.dreamwidth.org/260.html

Oh, believe me, I expound on all those issues at length every time I get to provide a declaration for one of these lawsuits!

I did it and I feel much better! You will feel much better if you do it too!

I might have some celebratory mochi even though I've already eaten way too much mochi today because, mochi

I have just successfully completed a thing I have been procrastinating for like 7 years because it was both irritating and not-urgent

I just want an hour's appointment with Richard Blumenthal so I can patiently explain at length how he's a gullible fool who keeps fucking getting played

Almost every US-American outside a very small region of the country has the merry-Mary merger either in progress or completed, and a good bit has all three merged by now! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English... discusses the possible mergers at length

So I figured, hey, we've been so involved in the fight with Netchoice, somebody oughta build that tracker and it might as well be us, but since I'm not technical enough to build a nice fancy system quickly I just went with the good old fashioned list for now, heh.

No worries! The major players in the fight for internet freedom definitely keep tabs on state laws, but there's no actively updated public facing list I've ever found like the one the FSC keeps for adult-content age verification bills.

Etc, etc. This law is just, like, SO FUCKING BAD and actively makes things worse, safety-wise, in a million ways. Sigh.

--about a specific topic or person to delete them in a crisis is a safety issue! It prevents showing lists of a minor's "connections", so people could comment to minors' locked posts (or locked posts in communities run by a minor) without being able to tell who else could see it! Safety issue!

--in a community made by a SC minor in ways that would make it wildly obvious at a glance to anyone at all the user was a minor! That makes minors less safe! It would make us probably have to stop indexing minors' posts for site search! Being able to quickly find past things you've posted--

I have, genuinely, had at least one case of "noncustodial parent demanding access to minor's locked entries to get information on where child and custodial parent had fled, to enable NCP kidnapping" in my career! The SC law just passed would require me to display comments and entries--

I have serious issues with the state mandating that I use more intrusive methods, or demanding that I deliberately compromise minors' safety -- like, a lot of these laws require you to give access to anyone who can convincingly *pretend* to be someone's parent.

I don't *mind* voluntary self-attested age gates, because they're not a privacy disaster; we use that method for COPPA compliance and to calculate who shouldn't be able to turn off the NSFW content filter on my site, for instance. And people with privacy concerns can just fudge the date a little!

Oh believe me, they all know about them already, heh. (We're a Netchoice member, for instance!)

So I do genuinely assume that people who mention getting geoblocked are reporting an error unless they explicitly state they're in MS!

Genuinely, my home IP address geolocates to the (former, sigh) White House Rose Garden in several of the most widely used IP geolocation databases and to a field in Bumfuck, Delaware in another. I have never once been located to the correct *state* unless by location services, which I leave off

You know how it goes when you're just trying to be helpful, sometimes you accidentally make the wrong assumptions and just happen to accidentally suggest to someone a means of getting around a ridiculous law that should never have been passed

I just assumed because of how horribly inaccurate geolocation by IP address is, even though it's the only technology we have even the remotest ability to deploy in the hope of avoiding existential liability threats if the state of Mississippi disagrees with our content moderation and all that

a woman with wet hair and the words " you can 't do that " below her Alt: Sarah Michelle Gellar playing Faith-in-Buffy's body staring at herself in the mirror after a shower and practicing saying "you can't do that, it's WRONG" while sternly waggling her finger at the mirror

Oh! Well, then, nevermind, my bad, I would *never* suggest someone download a VPN just to evade fuckshit state laws that do nothing for actual child safety while burdening the speech and anonymity of every person in the state!