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Comment by brigade

8 hours ago

Mississippi can’t unless they can establish personal jurisdiction over a specific Mastodon operator. Which if that instance’s owner/operators don’t live in Mississippi, probably requires a novel application of the Zippo test [1] that’s a bit questionable for how noncommercial Mastodon tries to be.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_jurisdiction_in_Inter...

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