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by esskay 105 days ago
Counterpoint - its a legal requirement in several parts of the world now (and rapidly expanding), how do you think they should handle it whilst you know...still being able to exist?
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egorfine 104 days ago
It's not a legal requirement in my country. Thus they are volunteering to go extra mile in the implementation of the repressive laws.

I think they should resist as much as possible. Yes it was a legal requirement to gas the Jews and it was illegal to hide them.

Who do we cheer now? Those who abided to the law or those who broke it?

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wolvoleo 105 days ago
It was supposed to be decentralised though, meaning there would be no central party to pursue.
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danabramov 105 days ago
Sure, which is why it's perfectly possible to work around those restrictions using any of the alternative apps that show the same data (but don't implement the legal restrictions).
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subscribed 105 days ago
It is. The block is on the client level, not the network.
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egorfine 104 days ago
How long until it KYC at bluesky becomes a centralized requirement?
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Klonoar 105 days ago
What makes you think a nation state level entity can't pursue in this case...?
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wolvoleo 105 days ago
The same reason even nation state actors have not managed to eradicate torrents. You take one tracker down, another pops back up.
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morcus 104 days ago
It kinda of confuses me when use the term "nation state" instead of just "state". For example Canada is not a nation-state but surely they are powerful and important enough that they could also pursue this kind of case.
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lII1lIlI11ll 103 days ago
This has been a pet peeve of mine for some time now. It seems people just feel smarter using a fancy terms instead of "a state" or "a government".
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