Bluesky Says It Will Comply With EU Rules After Being Called Out
Bluesky Says It Will Comply With EU Rules After Being Called Out
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Bluesky Says It Will Comply With EU Rules After Being Called Out
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So how would this work if say, people were streaming over to Mastadon instead of bluesky? Like its not clear to me that even the larger fediverse instances would have the money/ access to lawyers to support something like this.
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âAll platforms in the EU have to have a dedicated page on their websites where it says how many user numbers they have in the EU and where they are legally established,â
I think that's standard on mastodon and pleroma instances.
Under the DSA, platforms with more than 45 million users in the bloc qualify as âvery large online platformsâ and need to follow stricter content moderation rules under the commissionâs supervision.
Clearly defined rules? How interesting... but moderation is a thing on the fediverse so, meh... maybe mastodon.social has to worry about it.
Smaller platforms are still required to comply with the law, but are regulated by the EU country where they have a legal presence. Thatâs so far unclear in the case of Bluesky, which was created expressly to avoid a centralized ownership structure.
And yet they're not decentralized yet... if ever. Anyway, servers are physical.
A while back i was looking for instances in the EU and while a few claimed to be from a few different countries, their servers were all in Helsinki...
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A lot of instances are hosted by Hetzner which has servers in Germany and Finland. Although that might not be what they mean by "legal presence".
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That's what i thought, but what does it count as legal presence?
I can be a company with headquarters in France and using Hetzner as my provider, the server i use being in Finland. Do i follow french law or both?
Not a lawyer.
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