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The guy behind Shit Rentals has made a free public database for tenants::Named after his influential TikTok series, Shit Rentals, Jordie van den Berg (aka Purple Pingers) announced the database on the website formerly known as Twitter.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would very much talk with a lawyer first.

These kinds of things crop up every few years and either become dens of racism or get sued to oblivion. And the UK has some pretty hefty libel laws

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What if it was hosted in another country and set up through a shell company, like these large companies like to hide behind?

I will seek legal advice first but just thinking out loud I guess.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If you have the know how to implement it and the money to maintain it then probably

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'd offer to help but I'd like to visit the motherland some day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Read the history of the Pirate Bay. That should give you some ideas how to make a site that is reasonably resistant to laws and governments.