The Court of Justice of the EU—likely without realizing it—just completely shit the bed and made it effectively impossible to run any website in the entirety of the EU that hosts user-generated con…
Nevertheless, the EU demands that any websites, internet services, … that are offered to EU users follow EU laws like GDPR. If it’s in a language not spoken in the EU, then it’s probably fine. If lemmy.today declared that it was specifically for Oregonians, that would likely be fine, too. But anything in English that is offered globally, is a potential target.
shrugs
They might decide to do that. Kazakhstan’s legal system can assert universal jurisdiction if it wants (and there are courts that do assert universal jurisdiction). But the US legal system doesn’t simply use Kazakhstan’s definition of jurisdiction just because Kazakhstan has asserted it.
Fedi-servers in the EU certainly have to follow these regulations.
shrugs
They might decide to do that. Kazakhstan’s legal system can assert universal jurisdiction if it wants (and there are courts that do assert universal jurisdiction). But the US legal system doesn’t simply use Kazakhstan’s definition of jurisdiction just because Kazakhstan has asserted it.
Yeah, that may well be true.