Hey guys,
Years and years ago, Reddit had a sub where you could discuss darknet markets. For those uninitiated, a darknet market is a Tor hidden service where you can buy contraband with cryptocurrency.
Unfortunately, several years ago, Reddit shut down this sub because it “violated new rules about the sale of illegal goods” and most of that discussion has moved elsewhere. But with the rules being looser on the fediverse, would anyone be interested in setting up a forum for such discussion here? Would the admins here even allow it?
I’m really excited about how Lemmy can bring back certain communities disallowed by Reddit.
This makes me wonder: how could governments police the Fediverse? With Reddit they could just threaten the company, but what are they going to do with Lemmy? Threaten whoever hosts the instance?
I’m guessing that’s why people are recommending finding an instance that isn’t USA based.
Yeah, they will send subpoenas to the instance owner.
Basically. Instance administrator is responsible for what they host, and they must follow the law of were it’s host (and maybe the countries of their users, if they are European for instance).
If you are hosting something too illegal and draw attention they may block your IP, fine you or even raid the server location.