Comment by EGG_CREAM
1 year ago
This doesn't seem to affect users of internet services, though. It's just IaaS, so things like AWS. With that limited scope, what is the adverse affect of KYC laws on freedom of speech?
1 year ago
This doesn't seem to affect users of internet services, though. It's just IaaS, so things like AWS. With that limited scope, what is the adverse affect of KYC laws on freedom of speech?
It affects all web hosts, so if you want to lease a server in order to install Wordpress or Mastodon you would need to submit your identification to the provider.
I think it effectively affects all web hosts… Certainly how we expect them to work in 2024…
But remember that you can have a perfectly effective web host that simply accepts HTML uploads.
Certainly a tremendous loss of convenience and features but speech itself could still be available under this regime…
How much longer before IaaS platforms require their customers to also have similar KYC policies in their ToS to be able to shift liability downward in case anything goes down?
This law already includes platforms that resell IaaS. So about 4 days.