Issue regarding the pornographic rule

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[–]magnora7 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (15 children)

All it takes is one popular video posted on WPD 2.0, then BOOM!

Such as? I don't think that's true at all.

Sorry the porn policy is pretty set-in-stone at this point, you are correct

[–]HorseMeat[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (14 children)

The New Zealand Shooting. The government pushed hard to get that removed from as much sites as possible. Even Liveleak was forced to remove it to avoid being censored.

[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

The government pushed hard to get that removed from as much sites as possible.

Not in the US, where our servers are. And we might soon move them to switzerland or norway or something, which is even more safe

[–]HorseMeat[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (12 children)

Does it matter where the servers are? Governments/ISPs can sadly censor stuff without having direct access to the servers. Being blocked in certain countries is not ideal for any site.

[–]magnora7 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

Yes it definitely matters. It's very hard for them to shut down a server in switzerland, they have very intense privacy laws and the swiss government doesn't let the US government or other governments do stuff willy-nilly to data hosted physically in their country

[–]HorseMeat[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

That's very interesting actually! That adds one more point to the list of why Switzerland is ahead of other countries.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Yeah it does. It's where the elite hide all their money so it makes sense it'd have super-strict and unbreakable security laws, haha.

Also Iceland was another good alternative, they take data security seriously and you know the country is in the hands of their people because they just had a revolution to re-write their constitution in 2009. But the servers there are 5-10x as expensive as Norway and Switzerland, so it's not a competitive option unfortunately.

[–]HorseMeat[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

Switzerland it is then. I don't think you really even need to consider the alternatives if you already know you are guaranteed reliably.

[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Yeah it's basically between Switzerland and Norway. And also off-shore is another option, in international waters. That's also the same price as Switzerland and Norway. It's a new option I just learned about recently. It might be good because there's no government, but that might also make it weak as well, if there's literal pirates that hijack the offshore rig the servers are on. But from a legal perspective it's probably the most free, but in some ways that makes it more vulnerable to outside influence instead of being protected. But an offshore rig would probably have better ping to America, where most of our users are.

But it's looking like probably Switzerland or Norway. Still thinking it over though and considering options.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I have to come clean man. When I said "offshore" I didn't mean in international waters... I just meant outside of the US. The one I thought looked cool is in the Netherlands. I should have said something but it was like 3am so I flaked. My bad.

I think Sealand did used to offer hosting though. Also I think the only real advantage of not-in-US hosting for SaidIt is to escape DMCA notices.

[–]HorseMeat[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Lol that's crazy. Actual pirates are still a thing.

You could make the decision easy for yourself by relying on the userbase's opinion, assuming you have trust in it.