Not if they're outside the country's jurisdiction. The point is that a company that has a business entity in the UK is required to follow UK laws. This is why signal is shutting down in the UK.
A disorganisation run by volunteers in Japan can ignore the UK's silly backdoor encryption laws; the UK has no legal authority over their servers.
Yeah, don't tell your grandpa to pick an instance. Just link him straight to the registration page. Solved.
Lemmy is the same. Facebook is the same. You don't need to tell a user that their Facebook account is going to be shared by their geography. That doesn't matter.
Just link then to the registration page for the instance that you use. Easy.
And are you willing to pay workers shit, force them to work in life threatening conditions, and pay off governments and gangsters to prevent them from organising?
Literally read the link above. They mention the issues of nitrogen oxides exponentionally fucking up the atmosphere when burned at high altitude, but they they totally leave that out when calculating only co2 in the conclusion
itchy_lizard @ itchy_lizard @feddit.it Posts 8Comments 205Joined 2 yr. ago
Lol wut? They want to make it illegal for me to install software on my device?
These fuckijg Mellon head legislators should be jailed for suggesting such violations..