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[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In all seriousness, at the end of the day, the legal side of this hasn’t been thoroughly tested.

Sure it has. There's nothing overly novel going on here with Lemmy or ActivityPub. There are servers that host instances which host content. If they exist within the jurisdiction of country N, then said laws and government have some level of influence on it. Unless it's hosted in like Sealand or some lawless place with terrible Internet connection, which is super unlikely.

If your instance is hosted in the US, the federal government can still get subpoena access under the PATRIOT ACT and put the owner under gag and we'd never know.

[–] fishos@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

If your instance is hosted in the US, the federal government can still get subpoena access under the PATRIOT ACT and put the owner under gag and we'd never know.

Which is why all instance owners need to implement some form of digital canary.