Where is bluesky based? As far as I know you have to follow the laws of where you are based. Otherwisse we’d have to follow the lowest common denominator, like north korea, or afghanistan or the like
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cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
i don’t get why this is shocking; if you do business in a country you have to follow local laws.
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
it doesn’t matter where you’re based; if you’re operating in a country, you follow the laws of that country.
Ajen@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Or you play a cat-and-mouse game with the authorities in that country as they try to block access to your servers. Depending on your moral values this might be preferable to blindly following the laws of authoritarian regimes.
It’s really the country you’re based in that matters the most.
Cantaloupe877@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It doesn’t matter all that much, if your service can be accessed in a country, you have to bend to their rules, or get blocked, and Turkish users will no longer be able to access Bluesky.
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
OK, so let them block you. What the fuck is that gonna do? A country wants to get pissy, let them get pissy. And while they’re getting pissy, give the people who live there directions on how to get a VPN and bypass their government and its laws.
magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
If you want your site reachable that’s fine, but if you want to operate as a legal business with a local operation and all that entails, you need to follow local laws.
SlothMama@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Honestly at this point I want to host a distributed Lemmy instance and completely ignore all country laws in favor of complete and absolute freedom of speech.
It might sound extreme, but pretty sure at this point I’d be willing to die for it given the state of global politics.