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Given that mastodon nodes *aren't* usually run by a corp with a lot of money, are they more susceptible to shake down by large entities (e.g. the US government) than Twitter?
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-lawsuit-idUSKBN1782PH
@lhark Yeah. mastodon.xyz is in France.
Looks like it might be hosted by OVH, though. If that's true, wonder if in a hypothetical scenario if the US could compel company with presence in US and France to turn over servers in France.
@seabre I know some big US companies managed to keep the US government out from their european servers for some time. So if I had to take a wild guess, i'd say the americans would have a hard time getting data from OVH (i hope at least).
@seabre What might help is the fact that mastodon instances are disseminated all over the globe. For example the US government will have a hard time coercing an owner living in spain or even russia.