Yeah, it's real. I'm trying to get off facebook as much as possible but it's the only place I can reach a lot of my friends. : p
It might be time to just give them your contact info, and rip the quitting-Facebook bandaid off.
There's all kinds of shit going on right now - A lot of apps, especially facebook and google bullshit, track your location in real time to the meter. that means they know if you went to planned parenthood, how many times, when, how long you were there, etc. All permanently recorded, all available to the fash if they ask nicely or get a subpoena, state laws depending.
No online service with legal ties to the United States (which scarily includes hexbear itself) is going to be safe from persecution.
The lookup tools I've tried say France via OVH, and protected by Cloudflare. But OVH, Cloudflare, and the .net registry have legal connections to the United States. That's fine for a general purpose forum. But that's three avenues for American prosecutors to attack Hexbear without even factoring in the nationalities of the admins.
Edit: I don't want to come across as hostile to the way the site is set up and administered. I just think that Americans need to start being very careful about what they say on forums legally linked to American citizens and companies, and not to assume that a site is safe because it's hosted outside the US.
personally I would reccommend to anyone worried by things like this abortion ruling a simple rule whereby you avoid posting anything incriminating online. It's too hard to keep track of what's hosted where you won't do it.
send nothing in an email, discord message, whatever you wouldn't be happy to have read out in court
It might be time to just give them your contact info, and rip the quitting-Facebook bandaid off.
No online service with legal ties to the United States (which scarily includes hexbear itself) is going to be safe from persecution.
Yup. Best you can do is try to make them work for it a little.
Is this site hosted in amerikkka
The lookup tools I've tried say France via OVH, and protected by Cloudflare. But OVH, Cloudflare, and the .net registry have legal connections to the United States. That's fine for a general purpose forum. But that's three avenues for American prosecutors to attack Hexbear without even factoring in the nationalities of the admins.
Edit: I don't want to come across as hostile to the way the site is set up and administered. I just think that Americans need to start being very careful about what they say on forums legally linked to American citizens and companies, and not to assume that a site is safe because it's hosted outside the US.
personally I would reccommend to anyone worried by things like this abortion ruling a simple rule whereby you avoid posting anything incriminating online. It's too hard to keep track of what's hosted where you won't do it.
send nothing in an email, discord message, whatever you wouldn't be happy to have read out in court
This is true, but it doesn't solve the problem of other people talking about one.
If anyone ever sends me anything like that I reply back that I don't know what they're talking about