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The data protection directive might be an issue for you; protection of personal information is much stronger in the EU than in the US.

Less likely, but because it's Germany, if you're hosting bigoted content, particularly Nazi-associated content, that will be a problem.



That is a myth. You are not allowed to show symbols of an organization who is against our constitution, but only if it is not in the matter of science or history. The second law is, you are not allowed to call out for violence against a group/minority.

Censoring is illegal from our constitution, so you can only get sued by a court, but when you take it down it usually would be dismissed. It is not even an important public topic here.


I made an edit to my original post, though for some reason it didn't take.

Anyway, I'm not doing anything controversial, and I won't even be hosting user generated content (at least not in the early days, though we might later).


I just want to explain how a non issue this is here.

Twitter took this as an example to justify their new censoring features, that annoyed me a little. There is a difference between censoring and enforcement trough court. For the second one you just need a system for takedown requests.




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