this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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Won’t they have to comply with at least some EU laws in order to become federated? If EU residents can interact with Threads via another instance, they’ll still be on the hook for all of that mirrored data.
It could also be that the instances federating with Threads are on the hook, because they're giving data on EU residents to a third party