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Repository for data portability report and solutions for ActivityPub
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LOLA: Explain how servers should sometimes block content from export/port #18

Closed lisad closed 1 month ago

lisad commented 2 months ago

As Emilia pointed out in the May 3 SWICG call:

We cannot require servers to make content available for export especially for certain reasons for blocking or suspending an account. If an account was suspended because the admins don't like the content, it may make sense to still allow access for the account to be ported elsewhere as it helps the account holder move somewhere where there content is more welcome. However, if an account was suspended or deleted because of any illegal content, this should clearly not be made available for porting. The requirements language around this issue should be clear that there are some necessary exceptions to making data available.

lisad commented 1 month ago

I believe this is resolved now: "Although of course the source server MAY reject this [portability authorization] request if a user has been suspended in some way, there are good arguments for allowing suspended users to still migrate their content to other servers. There are also reasons to block this, so the source server MAY block the user from granting portability access."