wizardSep 9, 2019
I'm not legally allowed to self host things without violating my ISP's AUP

https://www.xfinity.com/Corporate/Customers/Policies/HighSpeedInternetAUP

The rest of it generally sucks too.
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High Speed Internet AUP

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Honestly even Comcast's business class internet has some bullshit

I can't apply network filtering policies in my lan?

Comcast can literally interfere with my services' availability at will?

I can't change from Comcast's default DNS?

IRC and other chat bots cannot be hosted

What does this last thing even mean? Am I not allowed to let people know that my web services are, in fact, a teapot?

I probably misunderstood some of those but they're so oversimplified that I'm asking more questions than I'm getting answers
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Show threadseven Sep 9, 2019
@wizard What the shit is that, do you have a link?
Show threadwizardSep 9, 2019
@seven https://business.comcast.com/customer-notifications/acceptable-use-policy

Read 'em and weap
Acceptable Use Policy

Show threadwizardSep 9, 2019
@seven weep* lol whoop
Show threadseven Sep 9, 2019

@wizard Jesus:

"undertake or accomplish any unlawful purpose. This includes, but is not limited to, posting, storing, transmitting or disseminating information, data or material which is libelous, obscene, unlawful, threatening or defamatory, or which infringes the intellectual property rights of any person or entity, or which in any way constitutes or encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, or otherwise violate any local, state, federal, or non-U.S. law, order, or regulation;"

Show threadwizardSep 9, 2019
@seven I mean, I'm posting the less-expected bullshit. It's probably wrong that I expected things like this to be in there but ey

There's obviously a lot wrong with internet politics and policy in general and I think that lots of people are already aware of most of what's going on.
Show threadseven Sep 9, 2019

@wizard And stuff like this: "post, store, send, transmit, or disseminate any information or material which a reasonable person could deem to be unlawful;"

What reasonable person? Like who are we talking about, and do I get to agree they are reasonable. They have lost their mind if they think any of this is actually enforceable if anyone with the ability to legally fight back does...

Show threadwizardSep 9, 2019
@seven Honestly why is comcast trying to police the data that I "store"

Like if I have it, it's not their problem. They're just a telecommunications company, not a global authority for what lives on my NAS

That's the government's job if anything
Show threadEigenellies, Witches of the SeaSep 9, 2019
@wizard we've been running this instance on a Comcast connection for almost a year and their service has been shit but they haven't shut us down

presumably our server does not look like a personal one because it's getting inbounds from all over the place
Show threadEigenellies, Witches of the SeaSep 9, 2019
@wizard we honestly didn't even read the terms and conditions because we don't give a shit, we're not doing anything illegal
Show threadEigenellies, Witches of the SeaSep 9, 2019
@wizard (and if we are, you can't prove it)
Show threadEigenellies, Witches of the SeaSep 9, 2019
@wizard they give us a whopping 6 mbit/sec of upload so it's really not like we're going to be a thorn in their side even if we saturate that continuously
Show threadwizardSep 9, 2019
@diodelass Yeah, that's another thing. I doubt comcast cares much about trying to lock down non-business class customers since their speeds are generally slow enough and they probably would buy the business version if they were doing big business things anyway.
Show threadEigenellies, Witches of the SeaSep 9, 2019
@wizard yeah and like
they have all the flags they need if they actually cared to check
"hmmmmm, this girl forwarded every port to one device that's always online, WONDER WHAT THAT COULD BE"
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@diodelass
11MiB up and down gang right here  
(i have no idea what the canonical speed of that connection is supposed to be but there is openvpn overhead and stuff)

thank not-comcast but also fuck them because they're not that much better
@wizard

Show threadwizardSep 9, 2019
@diodelass Honestly I doubt that any part of this AUP is actually enforced except for dmca-related policies and easily automatable ones.