If you don’t think some Lemmy instances are being run from Fort Meade and Quantico, you’re not paranoid enough.
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jg1i@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I was wondering the same thing. It seems more proper to run a separate government Mastodon server. Otherwise, they’re showing preferential treatment to one company.
Although… they probably can’t handle self hosting? But really? The all mighty US can’t self host a server?
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 7 months ago
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Other governments have done it, even the BBC have as well
Neato@ttrpg.network 7 months ago
They’d just pay a contractor to stand up a server on azure or AWS. Most of the labor would be moderation which is probably why they won’t do it.
They couldn’t remove anything without Republicans crying censorship. And because it’s government run, first amendment protections apply. Which means they couldn’t remove a lot of what moderators already do.