[Foundation-l] Legal implications of hosting wikis outside of United States?

Wed Aug 3 15:35:59 UTC 2005

On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 7:45 am, Dori wrote:
> On 8/3/05, Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
> <snip>
>>  What would be the legal implications of serving some content from
>>  outside of the United States, in comparison to merely running them
>>  through a local caching proxy?
>
> Probably censorship. I remember the hassles Google and Yahoo had to go
> through because of French laws. Believe it or not the US probably
> still has the "freer" speech out there. I suppose it would be OK if we
> could move them back to the US in case of trouble. Which would mean
> not having the local chapters associated with the content somehow. At
> the very least some lawyer out there should make sure the GFDL is fine
> in the proposed hosting country.

Well, if this is the case, should we also make sure that the db is 
constantly kept synced back to the US in case the country just goes in 
and rips it out? Not saying france will, but another country might.