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On the other hand, germany is a bad place to have your servers.

At least the founders of Posteo show a strong willingness to proceed against attempts of intimidation which they face. See for example

> https://posteo.de/blog/bnetza-entscheidung-zu-posteo-kryptog...

> https://posteo.de/Dienstaufsichtsbeschwerde_Strafanzeige.pdf

(both in German).

And yet, Germany currently isn't even allowed to issue European Arrest Warrents, because our public prosecutors are not sufficiently independent from government influence.

https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/201...

Just want to clarify that German courts are allowed to issue European arrest warrants, just the prosecutors are not allowed to

English language version: https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/201...

Out of interest where would you suggest?

Depends who your adversary is.

I'm not sure, but I guess a relatively developed country without a big nosy state would do (or one that doesn't care about the Internet/speech censorship/spying on people). Other obvious places where you don't want to have your servers: Australia, USA, UK, Russia(duh), Turkey.

Case study: Vincent Canfield, of the half-joke email provider cock.li, moved his servers to Romania after them getting seized by German prosecutors.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/cock-li-server-s...

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