Overview

• The move follows the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to pause enforcement of HB 1126 while legal challenges continue.
• The statute mandates age verification for every user, requires parental consent for minors, and sets potential penalties up to $10,000 per user.
• Bluesky says building age verification would require significant infrastructure, stringent privacy safeguards, and ongoing compliance beyond its capacity.
• Some people outside Mississippi were mistakenly blocked due to traffic routing through the state, and CTO Paul Frazee says a location-detection update is rolling out to fix it.
• The restriction covers only Bluesky’s own app on the AT Protocol, leaving room for other apps on the network to adopt different approaches.