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19 days agoDoesn’t work that way. States agree to enforce each other’s civil orders
Jerry on PieFed
Just a techie guy running feddit.online to allow people to communicate, make friends and acquaintances. Odd coming from a happy introvert, right? (https://jerry.hear-me.blog/about)
I also own these publicly available applications:
Mastodon: https://hear-me.social/
Alternative Mastodon UI: https://phanpy.hear-me.social/
Peertube: https://my-sunshine.video/
Friendica: https://my-place.social/
Matrix: https://element.secure-channel.net/
XMPP/Jabber: https://between-us.online/
Bluesky PDS: https://blue-ocean.social/ (jerry.blue-ocean.social)
Mobilizon (Facebook Events Alt): https://my-group.events/
and more…
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On feddit.online I block both the UK and France in addition to Mississippi. However, I believe in a future upgrade, PieFed can be configured to block people from specific countries from accessing NSFW and NSFL communities (feddit.online doesn’t allow NSFL communities). When that upgrade happens, I will open it again to the UK and France but keep it closed for Mississippi.
I’m exhausted with all this. And it’s not my fight. The fight belongs to the people of Mississippi. They elected their “leaders.”
Until I know for sure that I am not on the hook to pay a $10K penalty for each person on my servers, I’ve blocked all Mississippi IP addresses from logging in and registering on my Mastodon, Piefed, and Friendica servers.
Wyoming will probably be next.
They can notify the hosting company that the server is violating UK law, the registrars, and payment services. This is the fear for sites not hosted in the UK. There are inter-country agreements to support civil actions.
Just mentioning that Mozilla VPN uses Mullvad, and with their Firefox extension you can exclude individual websites from VPN protection or set preferred server locations for specific sites. So you can stay on a UK server for UK banking sites but switch to a different country server for a social site.
Only works on Windows for now. But maybe useful given this situation.
Yes, the U.S. and the U.K. have cooperation agreements for Civil actions.
A public enforcement action by Ofcom could make it difficult because payment processors can refuse to work with the site owner, domain registrars could be pressured to suspend the domain, and hosting providers might refuse to provide services.
Who needs this drama?
Piefed.social isn’t as affected because they restrict the NSFW communities. Feddit.online doesn’t have the restriction, so it’s more exposed.
The fear is a complaint being made to Digital Ocean that a server they host is violating UK law. It would be much easier for DO to remove the server than to take any other action.
The Mozilla VPN with their Firefox extension (not yet on Linux), for example, lets you change the VPN server’s country based on the domain you connect to and even bypass the VPN for certain domains. So, I believe it can be configured to select a U.S. VPN server, for example, when visiting a U.S. social site, but stay on the native connection when accessing BBC services. It uses Mullvad as the provider, actually, which is high quality. They can’t be the only one.
The Internet always seems to find ways to bypass blocks.
Wow! Well done!!