Over the weekend, hackers targeted federated social networks like Mastodon to carry out ongoing spam attacks that were organized on Discord, and conducted
I don’t think any watchdog cares enough about spam laws, let alone the Fediverse, for this to blow up in Discord’s face.
I think Japanese law (the law that’s relevant here) specifies things like email and fax as a source of spam, not social media. I don’t think you can qualify the Fediverse as “electronic mail” like that. Maybe it also applies to other communication methods, but I can’t read Japanese so I can’t verify the online sources.
I’m going off this translation so I’m not entirely sure. I do think the original spammed was arrested, though, so as long as Discord complies with law enforcement orders I expect them to be in the clear.
I don’t think any watchdog cares enough about spam laws, let alone the Fediverse, for this to blow up in Discord’s face.
I think Japanese law (the law that’s relevant here) specifies things like email and fax as a source of spam, not social media. I don’t think you can qualify the Fediverse as “electronic mail” like that. Maybe it also applies to other communication methods, but I can’t read Japanese so I can’t verify the online sources.
I’m going off this translation so I’m not entirely sure. I do think the original spammed was arrested, though, so as long as Discord complies with law enforcement orders I expect them to be in the clear.
Ah, Japan, the country that lives in the future, if the future is the year 2000.
From the perspective of looking at the internet of today, the future is 1996.
Change my mind.