Re: [opennic-discuss] [opinion] Corporate strategies yields corporate results

On 26.07.2018 10:42, [email protected] wrote:
> It's a little jarring to hear constant reference
> to 501(c)3 as if we're all Americans. If this is
> supposed to be an international group then it is
> somewhat off-color to make such an assumption.
> The US is not the center of the world.

This is a very important aspect.

Like, no offense to any Americans here, but the US are probably one of
the worst places you could pick outside of non-democratic countries.
They have a history of shamelessly oppressing people, suppressing
freedom of information, censoring stuff and making private decisions in
secret courts while sending C&D letters with gag orders attached. If you
want to pick any country, it should be one where no such secret
shenanigans are possible, and ideally one that respects information
freedom and one that doesn't just block websites when they feel like
their ideas, friends or corporations are being endangered by  them.

Like, there's a very real possibility that if our servers (or members' /
T2 servers) were used by a third party for something illegal you could
possibly be forced to release logs, or secretly log more stuff, or even
be responsible for /not logging/ stuff.

I'd say have a non-profit in one of  the nordic countries, or somewhere
else in Europe... Though with some recent happenings and the history of
IT in Germany and France (or, god forbid, in the UK) we may be even
better off outside Europe's (or, like the EU) influence as well.



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