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Incidentally, socialgist.com, the owner of boardreader.com (which has changed hands a few times), is one of those private companies subcontracted by the feds to deliver things that the feds could not acquire directly without legal encumbrance. Here are excerpts of mail headers from yesterday morning:

> Delivery-date: Tue, 14 Mar 2023 16:46:12 +0000
> Received: from mx-east-out-17.fbi.gov ([153.31.119.176] helo=mx-east.fbi.gov)
> [...]
> X-Attachment-FN: FSE Screen Shot.PNG
> [...]
> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2023 16:45:59 +0000

The fed declined to answer my question about whether I would be obstructing an active investigation and has failed to respond to my "Look, you didn't answer my question." email. I am providing some limited information and will be providing more information soon; see below.

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It doesn't appear to be serious. They aren't after me; I don't know that they're after anyone. Nothing to do with drawings or photographs, they asked about a fedpost from someone that isn't even on FSE. Luckily for me, I have no way of giving them information I don't have, but I am also a paranoid motherfucker. So if he still doesn't answer the second attempt at asking the question by EOB, then either there is no problem if I disclose whatever, or I'm screwed and I should probably hedge by dumping everything and setting up another dead man switch.

That thing I have been saying for years, that they don't understand federation, they see "one site" and think "one site", that they don't understand the network? That's apparently completely accurate: they don't understand federation. They're asking me about some post that arrived on FSE but did not originate here, and when I explained this, they asked for help identifying the origin server.

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So, I can answer to the law for how I run FSE: I have operated this server with an eye towards ensuring that, if FSE causes the cops to care, it will have to be because they have a problem with freedom of speech. Revolver is designed to fix that: hosting everywhere means hosting nowhere, and relaying blocks means not relaying posts, so nobody should be liable for propagating blocks across the network (unlike the design of the other tool that has recently become popular, the one that requires propagating full posts between relays and then encourages you to send satoshis for the posts you like; "likes" on fedi can be forced, but the entire point of ). But until Revolver ships, I've got this problem, so I've gotta keep FSE rolling the way it rolls. Since I didn't give them any information (because I actually can't), the warrant canary is intact: https://freespeechextremist.com/notice/ATeCJ0lxGlj0XfLZsO . I am considering setting up a forwarder so that that bot receives emails sent to FSE's email address, so it can scan for mail from the government and report a count of how many new emails it has seen when it posts.

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:solidsnake::mgsgb_u::mgsgb_p::tyrellshades:

There are additional details that will have to wait.

As far as registrations and public access to TWKN go, I think the transparency on FSE improves the situation overall: if there's nothing hidden, then there is no reason to suspect anything shady is going on unless you see something shady going on. However, if off-site posts are ascribed to FSE and the if the feds are so clueless about fedi that they'll ask me for "subscriber information" for someone that isn't even on FSE (and they don't know how to look at the name of the server after the "@" in the nickname), this presents a problem: although I can answer for the things I do on FSE, I cannot answer for TWKN. Given that fact, and given that socialgist.com has continued its scraping attempts, I'm going to keep TWKN locked down and also keep registrations off for the time being. I hate that, but I don't have any better ideas.

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If anyone on your instance is a habitual fedposter, and you have avoided banning them, you should get rid of them before they cause you a problem.

Anyone that is good at analyzing their logfiles to look for signs of heavy scraping, and then to wander over to boardreader.com to see if anything from their site appears when they put their domain in the "domain" field. I tried a handful of servers and nothing: I think they're only scraping FSE.

If you are *not* good at analyzing your logfiles, and you are worried about scrapers, maybe lock down TWKN for a while.
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