Comment on Risks of self-hosting a public-facing forum?

• Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Don’t chose china or russia though ;-)

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• irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah, other countries have similar or even more strict requirements, so yeah it all depends on the jurisdiction. You have to also understand that just hosting something externally, doesn’t mean you don’t fall under laws of another country. It’s the internet. And if you live in a country, you may be held responsible for obeying their laws. I’m not a lawyer, so it’s something to be careful of even if externally hosted.

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  • RubberElectrons@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Somehow 4chan admins have largely escaped legal consequences for this stuff, and I don’t think it’s just because of sec230.

    Not a fan of 4chan, but I do note both their and the pirate bay’s operation scheme.

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    • irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I mean, in most cases this isn’t criminal law (in the US at least), so it means you have to attract enough attention of a corporation since they’re usually the only ones who can afford the legal costs to file the DMCA requests and responses for copyright violation. And with many other civil issues, often corporations with the money for it, don’t have standing to sue, and if they did, would be required to sue each individual in the appropriate jurisdiction.

      With the removal of Section 230, these costs will go down significantly as a single user’s violation could be enough to bankrupt or shut down an entire site of violating content or, if serious criminal violations like child porn, put the person who hosts the site in prison who, will be much easier to identify and sue in a single jurisdiction or arrest than a random internet user.

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