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So they were lying in the github repo about "based in Switzerland, no censorship policy as long as content is legal in Switzerland" when it was hosted in Germany on one of the cheapest providers all along, subject to a ton of speech restrictions in law?

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It's not necessarily a lie. "Based in" usually just means that's where they operate. The servers can be anywhere. I wouldn't fault them for assuming a modern Western country had enough freedoms to let them host their servers.

It would mean they didn't do even the most basic research though, as Germany isn't the first place you would look - it's reasonably common knowledge about their ideas of free speech and how certain subjects are really touchy

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