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Re:Poland Justice Minister announces online freedom of speec... by numpad0 on Monday January 11, 2021 @10:45PM (#25741997)
Websites that host user generated content are social media.

HN is a social media, your basement server isn’t, hosted content on AWS probably needs some definition workarounds but instinctively shouldn’t be.

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Re:Poland Justice Minister announces online freedom of speec... by jeena on Monday January 11, 2021 @11:09PM (#25742163)
What about my PeerTube instance hosted on a NUC in my kitchen? It hosts copies of videos and comments from other instances.
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Re:Poland Justice Minister announces online freedom of speec... by numpad0 on Monday January 11, 2021 @11:29PM (#25742290)
Boom you're a social media company. And you'll be naturally liable for hosting contents. Isn't that how Winny worked?
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