To be fair, on the modern internet, if it's paid, you're also the product.
That's one of the reasons I don't trust subscription services on principle without root access to their servers, you can not guarantee you're actually getting what you are paying them for once you are paying them for.
Well, they'd be supporting their local businesses for that I'd hope!
if you make your service available in Australia you must comply with Australian laws,
How does this even work? This is among the stupidest arguments I've ever heard on the internet, at about the same level of flat-earthism.
Are you saying if I am in Italy, selling Italian good on an Italian shop set in an Italian street, and an Australian tourist sends an agent to walk the Italian street and buy a thing for them from my Italian stand, I am somehow beholden to Australian law? This but "oN tHE iNtErNeT"?
pretty ridiculous
In the good way, yes. Who was it the admin of a Lemmy instance, I think, who said he would receive alcohol as a form of ID verification because to even acquire it legally in the first place you have to be of age, anyway? That's pretty much golden and incentivizes the local economy!
Pfff, in Amerikkka, of course!
All Americans are welcome to (re)try. They even have an Amendment for that.
My sources indicate that, as a natural intelligence, I can recommend feeling awesome.
Not me eyeing my largely unused fedia account ๐