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Ask HN: Where to host your site for anonymity and free speech?

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Re: Ask HN: Where to host your site for anonymity and free speech?

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Post by deutronium »

retroafroman wrote: post #4
Mithrandir wrote: post #2

Try using Tor. https://www.torproject.org/

Tor doesn't host anything. Maybe it would be useful in connecting to or administering a server that is hosted elsewhere, but this is not what the OP is asking for.

You can run a webserver and use Tor to provide a 'hidden service' https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-hidden-service.html.en

Re: Ask HN: Where to host your site for anonymity and free speech?

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Post by _delirium »

http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ is willing to host anything that U.S. law allows them to, and makes more of an effort than most hosting companies to keep anything up that they can, and requiring that proper legal procedures be followed before they'll take things down (policy: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/help/abuse). That would cover your "brand X sucks" example most likely, though perhaps not others.

Re: Ask HN: Where to host your site for anonymity and free speech?

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Post by mrpixel »

_delirium wrote: post #6

http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ is willing to host anything that U.S. law allows them to, and makes more of an effort than most hosting companies to keep anything up that they can, and requiring that proper legal procedures be followed before they'll take things down (policy: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/help/abuse ). That would cover your "brand X sucks" example most likely, though perhaps not others.

U.S. law doesn't exactly conform with my interpretation of freedom and it doesn't help with the anonymity issue.

Re: Ask HN: Where to host your site for anonymity and free speech?

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Post by _delirium »

mrpixel wrote: post #7
_delirium wrote: post #6

http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ is willing to host anything that U.S. law allows them to, and makes more of an effort than most hosting companies to keep anything up that they can, and requiring that proper legal procedures be followed before they'll take things down (policy: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/help/abuse ). That would cover your "brand X sucks" example most likely, though perhaps not others.

U.S. law doesn't exactly conform with my interpretation of freedom and it doesn't help with the anonymity issue.

Well, it's anonymous unless a court serves them with a subpoena demanding they turn over your identity. So it depends on just how anonymous one wishes to be.
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