Ask HN: What country has more resilient hosting providers?

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Lets say you want to start a service where people can host blogs, But i don't want blogs to be taken down or my site unless it goes into court. i.e. one day aws/cloudflare/twitter decide you are not politically correct enough for them.

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AFAIK there is no country who forces a company to host anything they do not wish to (with exceptions to government/political entities in some countries), if any company decides they do not want to be associated with something/someone they generally have a right to withdraw their business. Your best options are to 1) self host, 2) use a decentralized hosting platform, or 3) find a hosting provider who is willing to host your content.

is there hosting provider who has track record of being anti-censorship

plenty, but again, it's entirely country, speech, and type of speech dependent.

if anything, for general real "speech" purposes, hosting in the US is the best to do. it does not have for example UK's libel laws, most of Europe's laws against Nazi support, etc.

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