Re:Dear Facebook: Withdraw Your Cease and Desist to NYU
by pwinnski on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @06:09PM
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People 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.
Re:Dear Facebook: Withdraw Your Cease and Desist to NYU
by fxtentacle on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @06:27PM
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I believe the pirate bay has mostly US users, but it's located far outside the US.
Re:Dear Facebook: Withdraw Your Cease and Desist to NYU
by pwinnski on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @06:44PM
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It 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.
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.