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I'm surprised that people keep setting up this kind of projects in the US, where US companies enjoy strong legal protection. How about hosting it in Russia? Yo
by fxtentacle 6y ago
I'm surprised that people keep setting up this kind of projects in the US, where US companies enjoy strong legal protection.
How about hosting it in Russia? You can be pretty much sure that the legal system will protect you as much as possible, if nothing else then purely to rain on Facebook's parade.
And for the data it doesn't really matter where you store it, as long as you can convince US users to install your collection utility.
In fact, now that I think about it, I would be more surprised if other countries did not have data sets on the US election and its ads.
- pwinnski 6y agoPeople set up projects in the US because that's where the users are. And for that matter, where the people setting up the projects are.
- fxtentacle 6y agoI believe the pirate bay has mostly US users, but it's located far outside the US.
- pwinnski 6y agoIt was also created by non-US residents, I think, right? There are definitely reasons why some projects might want to deliberately seek out hosting outside of 5eyes countries, no doubt. But the original question was why, and I think most people create their projects wherever they're living at the time, or where they think they'll get the most users. I'm not sure whether US residents hosting projects on Russian servers would be much less susceptible to US "charms," come to think of it.