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hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks agothey cannot change the law, but also they don’t have to follow the law because they aren’t within that country’s jurisdiction.
From what I’ve heard these are german laws and their instance is based in austria. Those are different countries.
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 weeks ago
Not only that, this law has also in 99.9% of cases that I am aware of been enforced against the user who made the comment, not the site owner. Literally the only time I’m aware of it being enforced against the site owner is with Twitter, which kind of makes sense to me because (1) it is actually antisemitism in that case, not just “I wish Zionism would go away” and then BAN, (2) Twitter was actually arguably the source and the boosting agent for a lot of the antisemitism, it wasn’t just a neutral forum where people could go on and maybe break the law all on their own initiative.
But yes, it is also relevant that brought up “our hardware could get confiscated” when it is the flimsiest of flimsy theories for how it could even happen, even if we assume that they were going to get raided somehow. I get it. No one wants the police to come talk to them, it’s easy for me to talk over here safe (ho ho) in the USA. But the level of threat they are quaking in their boots over is very minimal. Very.