Switzerland
Yep, my money goes to Switzerland. This message was brought to you by Proton.
Jokes aside, I do really have been using Proton Mail and VPN for quite some time.
Yes, proton is pretty awesome for privacy and security. And it’s also because the Swiss laws has made it possible.
To really be censorship resistant you have to follow the example of the pirate streaming services. Have servers in multiple places. Multiple domain names. Be resilient to any instance going down.
Any capability the server has to violate user privacy a government has. So ensure you have as few capabilities as possible to violate privacy. If your users are very vulnerable make sure that you don’t have the data to expose them ever.
You can consider hosting in a “safe country” That’s just the beginning. You could make your service available on tor via hidden service address. That way even if users don’t have good operational security themselves you try to protect them from leaking their activity to whoever their vulnerable to
Just wanted to chime in by mentioning i2p. In some ways it’s much better depending on your requirements. For me Java was a dealbreaker but these days i2pd exists.
Switzerland, Iceland, Finland, Spain, Egypt,
Sweden, and some 3rd world countries that don’t really give a shit (though they might give a shit if your country makes them give a shit)Sweden is in the 14 eyes.
Switzerland and Sweden
Are you serious right now? Protect privacy and free speech by hosting right in the imperial core? Bruh.
Here is an article that helps a bit with that.
It goes almost without saying that you definitely want to avoid the United States and even more so China, Russia and so forth.
Iceland
This is what I was going to suggest. The only provider I’m aware of though is https://www.orangewebsite.com/
Oh there’re quite a few. I like flokinet out of all. https://flokinet.is
