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@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 “service provider.” But that really comes down to how confident the institution’s lawyers are… https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230