Justin (koavf)🌻🍉🇪🇭🌿Dec 21, 2022

If you are considering running your own Mastodon server (or similar service) and it will be hosted in the United States, please read this general best practice guideline from the Electronic Frontier Foundation: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer

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User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer

A growing number of people are experimenting with federated alternatives to social media like Mastodon, either by joining an “instance” hosted by someone else or creating their own instance by running the free, open-source software on a server they control. (See more about this movement and joining...

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Show threadAphrodite (recharging)Dec 21, 2022

@koavf

Does US hosting matter or does US exposure matter (eg: let’s say holding company is USian but physical server is on metal in Germany)?

Show threadJustin (koavf)🌻🍉🇪🇭🌿Dec 21, 2022
@Aphrodite Sounds like a great lawyer question (I am not one and not qualified to give legal advice). Generally, my understanding is that foreign courts can _try_ to penalize you for not following their laws, but good luck enforcing it.
Show threadAphrodite (recharging)Dec 21, 2022

@koavf

an upcoming project crosses at least four potential jurisdictional lines so we’re attempting plot out policies that comply with all X as best as possible anyways

Show threadJustin (koavf)🌻🍉🇪🇭🌿
@Aphrodite In my not-at-all-professional opinion, host things in the place that has the most liberal laws for speech and hiring (e.g. if you host in the United States, do not have an Iranian employee or if you host in the United Kingdom, beware that they have no real free speech laws). Can you update me when the project is live?
Dec 21, 2022 at 7:43amWeb