Comment by constantcrying

7 months ago

It is pretty clear that many European countries, EU or not, do not want individuals hosting websites. Germany has quite strict rules regarding hosting, the EU has again and again proposed legislation that makes individuals hosting sites very hard and the UK doing similar things is no surprise.

These governments only want institutions to host web services. Their rules are openly hostile to individuals. One obvious benefit is much tighter control, having a few companies with large, registered sites, gives the government control.

It is also pretty clear that the public at large does not care. Most people are completely unaffected and rarely venture outside of the large, regulated platforms.

> do not want individuals hosting websites

It's more about "accepting and publishing arbitrary content".

But, in practice, how hard is it to host a website anonymously? Or off-shore?

  • >But, in practice, how hard is it to host a website anonymously? Or off-shore?

    Obviously it is trivial, but so is shoplifting.

    Both are illegal and telling people to commit crimes is not helpful.

    • What's illegal in hosting a website anonymously? I don't even have to provide my personal info to register a domain name, I can run it on an IP-address

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