Bluesky has walked off the stage in the birthplace of the blues rather than comply with a new Mississippi law that the social network says would have required it to verify the age of every user in the state.

“Mississippi's approach would fundamentally change how users access Bluesky,” the decentralized platform announced in a post Friday afternoon, eight days after the Supreme Court declined the tech-advocacy group NetChoice’s request to block that statute requiring social sites to verify the ages of new users.