Oddbean new post about login | logout I think the lesson of Telegram is that if you’re going to operate a global business under multiple jurisdictions, you better have a team large enough to handle requests to comply with local laws. Simply pretending they don’t exist won’t cut it.
So the lesson you learned is that we need to comply better?
If the state wants you, they will get you, the particulars don't really matter.
I know some that avoided them (US) for decades, and two that avoided them until they died.
What if I am running extremely tiny business that just happens to serve a very distributed client base? Are those businesses just unfeasible legally anymore? Of course not, people will keep doing that, but because they are small they are not a target. I hate this whole thing it is depressing.
or don't travel to said countries i guess.
CEO of Gab says he won't travel outside the US because of this. He ignores requests from foreign governments because Gab is based in the US. I think the CEO of Rumble he get the hell out of dodge when he saw what happened to the CEO of Telegram. And now you have that letter coming out from Mark Zuckerberg saying the White House was pressuring him to censor. It's clear there is a war on free speech and social media platforms. So my best bet is to spread my prescence across multiple platforms including Nostr.
The lesson seems to be more like the state will throw any bullshit around to persecute people building technologies they don't like, meaning systems that use these technologies should be built to be resilient to single points of failure while giving companies plausible deniability that they tried but couldn't enforce restrictions. Compliant noncompliance is the way.
Yes it could all be bs excuse. I wonder why France is the only country to bring up those charges 🤔 or were there others?
I would think it's because he's a citizen of France, so they have a more direct legal course of action to pursue him with.