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Re:Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others by em-bee on Friday September 05, 2025 @10:54AM (#45139294)
there are more than 200 countries in the world. do you expect me to hire 200 people, one in each country? and then they do what? should they have access to my servers? if not, what's even the point? to act as a translator? i am ok with having to follow local laws be able to provide services to a country. but if i have to hire people in every jurisdiction just to allow people there to use my free service, then i can't even afford to offer that service anymore.

apparently matrix is not in the ban list. i wonder how they managed to comply.

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Re:Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others by bee_rider on Friday September 05, 2025 @11:20AM (#45139611)
If you are offering some free service just out of the kindness of your heart, and a country decides they don’t want to let their people take you up on it, I wouldn’t stress too much about it, right? I mean, it is a shame for them if your free service is really useful, but there are people all around the world without access to it…

Lots of countries seem to be scrutinizing large social media companies more aggressively than small volunteer projects. These sort of companies definitely can afford local representatives. They are businesses, if they aren’t making enough money in the country to justify the representatives, they can make the business decision to pull out.

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Re:Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others by Arathorn on Friday September 05, 2025 @01:36PM (#45141251)
nobody asked Matrix to comply with this (as far as I know). like Mastodon/ActivityPub, it's a bit of a lost cause to try to block a decentralised protocol in practice.
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Re:Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others by em-bee on Friday September 05, 2025 @01:42PM (#45141332)
i wonder why though. i don't think matrix is small enough that they haven't noticed it, and since mastodon is on the list they either don't understand decentralized services, or they misunderstood mastodon. that's the only explanation i can think of.
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Re:Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others by Arathorn on Friday September 05, 2025 @06:08PM (#45144221)
suspect they compiled a list of platforms where they had found anti-Nepalese content of whatever flavour, and there just happens to be none on Matrix.
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Re:Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others by MangoToupe on Friday September 05, 2025 @06:24PM (#45144366)
Why would you assume it's anti-nepalese content and not some other kind of objectionable content, like child pornography?
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