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minus-squarejol@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·20 days agoThis is the law in the UK. Once mastodon become more commonplace, you can expect servers to start receiving warnings from the UK government… I don’t think being not for profit allows you to get away with it either.
minus-squareColloidal@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·20 days agoBeing based in another jurisdiction might allow them to tell the UK government to suck a fat dick.
minus-squarejol@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·20 days agoI mean, yeah, and the government might just order ISPs to block the infringing domains. That’s usually how it goes.
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-220 days agoIt does render the original advice somewhat moot though doesn’t it. Just use Mastodon, except of course that won’t work, oh I don’t care then.
This is the law in the UK. Once mastodon become more commonplace, you can expect servers to start receiving warnings from the UK government… I don’t think being not for profit allows you to get away with it either.
Being based in another jurisdiction might allow them to tell the UK government to suck a fat dick.
I mean, yeah, and the government might just order ISPs to block the infringing domains. That’s usually how it goes.
I see no problem with that.
It does render the original advice somewhat moot though doesn’t it.
Just use Mastodon, except of course that won’t work, oh I don’t care then.