Just realized that you can read *some* U.S. legislation re political messaging (e.g. requiring it to pass spam filtering) to the extent that if the GOP set up a Mastodon instance, U.S. Mastodon instances would *have* to federate with it?
@Danhon That kind of raises another interesting question. Since US courts ruled that politics can't block critics on social media (Davison v. Randall), does that extend to instance operators blocking other instances? Like, if a congressman signs up on my instance, am I required to not block other instances?
@nick I think so. It's shitty legislation. This is one of the reasons why it's shitty.
