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this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2024
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Damn! Using .af for a LGBT+ site is insane! The country could have redirected the domain to their own servers and started learning the personal details of those on the site who I imagine wouldn’t be terribly thrilled having an anti-LGBT+ government learn their personal information (namely information not displayed publicly). Specifically, they could put their own servers in front of the domain so they can decrypt it, then forward the traffic on to the legitimate servers, allowing them to get login information and any other data which the user sends or receives.
Would they care enough to do all of this, though?
The Taliban blew up huge statues of Buddhas that had stood for 1500 years because they'd suddenly decided they were blasphemous. They would absolutely hijack a queer forum so they could hunt down any user who might be in Afghanistan
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml...
Do not use 2 letter country TLDs!
Well, there's another one!
I think it makes a huge difference which 2-letter country. I have a couple of .au domains, and I am not stressing about that.
I doubt my .at domains is going under, and if so I'll have bigger problems to worry about.
You'll be stressing about it when the emus take power.
Sir/Madame, I think you are confused.
The Emus won the war... Australia has been run by an Emu shadow government since 1932.
When the Emus finally reveal how much power they have been amassing we are going to have more to worry about than the .au TLD.
Need I remind you that Australia produces 8% of the worlds uranium.
There will be hell to pay when the Emu finally show themselves to the world.
😧
On the Internet, nobody knows I'm an emu.
It's not lost on me lol. The news site is also a .CO domain.
The headline is misleading. The Taliban did not shut down queer.af. The team behind the instance decided to move away from the domain so as to not support the Taliban through domain fees. Source: https://wedistribute.org/2024/01/queer-af-is-shutting-down-due-to-taliban/
The article explains that, yes, they did plan to move...in April. The Taliban government did, in fact, shut them down ahead of that schedule.
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