Like this: > And administrators must comply with not only their local laws, but laws that exist anywhere their server is accessible. This is bullshit and the

Like this: > And administrators must comply with not only their local laws, but laws that exist anywhere their server is accessible. This is bullshit and they have to know it's bullshit. Why? Because their servers are accessible in Thailand, but nobody pretends they have to abide the lèse-majesté laws Thailand enforces. Ditto the various laws in force in other countries Ars doesn't care about. Plus, they don't look into why Twitter complies with the GDPR: Twitter has assets in Europe that the EU could seize. A local Mastodon instance operator doesn't, so they don't have to care. Vice-versa in the converse, of course: A small European Mastodon instance operator doesn't have to care about any laws in North or South America.