Man that sucks, especially the social services part. Did everything work out in the end?
> […] in the UK
Or anywhere else for that matter, unless you are absolutely sure about the legality of the matter and how law enforcement will respond. I am under the impression that only corporations and institutions should run Tor exit nodes.
Yeah, it all worked out fine eventually, apart from me still being a little bit jumpy if someone knocks the door in the morning when I'm not expecting it.
The UK is probably one of the worst places in the English-speaking world to be accused of hosting something illegal. I've considered hosting a kink social network here (competition with Fetlife), but any sort of image sharing system would leave me incredibly open to the police. I've known people who hosted specific kink-related forums and similar, even without an image upload system, and had huge problems.
As far as I can tell the most reasonable thing to do if I wanted to go through with this would be to develop the software, and sell it on an ongoing basis to a company somewhere with reasonable laws which can actually operate it.
> […] in the UK
Or anywhere else for that matter, unless you are absolutely sure about the legality of the matter and how law enforcement will respond. I am under the impression that only corporations and institutions should run Tor exit nodes.