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How will Australia's ban on youth access to social media affect instances hosted in Australia? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 day ago by n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Do they have any rule that says you need a minimum number of users on a site to fall under the law?

If servers of someinstance.co.au fine if they move to hosting in Finland?

It just feels like a nightmare.

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[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

if you make your service available in Australia you must comply with Australian laws,

How does this even work? This is among the stupidest arguments I've ever heard on the internet, at about the same level of flat-earthism.

Are you saying if I am in Italy, selling Italian good on an Italian shop set in an Italian street, and an Australian tourist sends an agent to walk the Italian street and buy a thing for them from my Italian stand, I am somehow beholden to Australian law? This but "oN tHE iNtErNeT"?

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 12 hours ago

This is a complex issue and both of the comments above are way oversimplifying it...

Lots of governments around the world are nowadays claiming that their laws apply to all or many websites that can be accessed in their borders. Whether they can enforce this if the website has no physical assets in the country is a very different question. They could arrest their operators when they enter their countries (as happened to Pavel Durov), or they could geoblock websites, or... here are some starting points for further research: