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@cuddlefish @evan Again, not all institutions are as lenient as MIT with what is published under their domains. Some manage them very carefully, both legally, technically and w.r.t. their โbrand.โ  @olyerickson Legal liabilities... You know, back in my day universities and organizations ran their own websites and forums and blogs and hosted their own E-mail servers. Legal liabilities for what? For running a website for your organization? Fediverse, after all, is just websites talking to each other, that's it. How deeply poisoned and scared have we become? @drq @evan In the US, under CDA Section 230 an institution _ought_ to be protected from legal concerns; it _ought_ to be treated as a โservice provider.โ But that really comes down to how confident the institutionโs lawyers areโฆ https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230 |
@olyerickson @evan the #MIT instance is hosted by students and is separate from the MIT administration. it's as affiliated with the institute as anyone's personal website on the mit domain.