Miss. Social Media Law and Game Chat Boards?

[Cadence]

Saw the article on BlueSky blocking users in Mississippi to avoid the difficulties/problems in implementing age verification. Looking it up, I was kind of surprised to see how broadly the law seems to apply at first blush.

https://legiscan.com/MS/text/HB1126/id/2988284/Mississippi-2024-HB1126-Enrolled.html

Any rumblings about this on sites where games are discussed and if it will affect them? Did I miss a minimum number of users the right up? How many users do the various sites have? Which, if any, of the main sites already use actual age verification? Would they dodge because the site is predominantly something else first?

 

[grankless]

Well, it's definitely a message board. And the people who pushed for this law are happy to harm/harvest the data of/limit the speech of as many people as possible so I imagine these will be read as broadly as possible.

 

[The Firebird]

Sounds like the law as written applies. That said, I understand Bluesky has quite a bit of 18+ content and I'm not sure Enworld or other gaming sites would be targeted in the same way. I also believe Enworld gets much more traffic from news, and could argue it is primarily a news site with the message board being incidental. In any case it doesn't seem to be a well written law to target age verification for 18+ material.