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