* Acceptable Use Policy:

You are free to publish what you want on your own gopherspace and
store what you want in your home directory, up to 500MB. You are
welcome here regardless of your age, gender, language, political
orientation, race, religion, or sexuality, and you may speak your mind
about whatever you like. This freedom is extended to all users,
including those you disagree with. The basic rule of thumb is, you can
store or publish non-commercial content considered distasteful or even
abhorrent by others, as long as it is legal in the jurisdiction where
the server resides (the Netherlands). In other words, don't get the
admin of this server in legal trouble.

For shared services like email, IRC or bbs, please conduct yourself
with civility. Basically, don't be a jerk. If you pretend you are in a
stranger's living room, talking to a group of people that you do not
know very well, you will be fine. Note this applies to network
resources, and includes prohibitions on port or vulnerability
scanning, account cracking, or DoS attacks. This can lead to account
deletion but we'd like to think it won't ever happen in a small
community like this. Prove us right.

 * Personal Data and Privacy:

To sign up for an account you need to provide us with a desired
username and SSH public key. We don't care about your real name or any
other personally identifying information. You're free to use this
server anonymously. That said you can also update your own
gopherspace, GECOS or finger data to include whatever level of
personal information you are comfortable sharing. It's up to you. We
won't ever share your personal information without your explicit
permission.

Data in your home directory is yours (you own the content you create
here).

Your free gopherspace is publically accessible by design, and
obviously you should not consider any content under your ~/gopher
directory to be private.  Even if you do not link to a file from any
menus, in order to be served over gopher the file must have
world-readable permissions, which means other users logged into the
server can read it directly.

Content stored in your home directory but *outside* your gopherhole is
not public, and if you set the file permissions appropriately, other
users of the server will not be able to view this content.  The
Republic administration will not look at any non-world-readable files
in your home directory except in these circumstances:

1) You ask for help and give permission for us to do something with
your data.

2) Something you did is impacting server resources or performance
(e.g. a runaway cron or using too much disk space), and we need to
make an emergency change to remediate it. We'll let you know if that
ever happens and provide specifics.

3) In response to a valid court order in the jurisdiction in which the
server resides (the Netherlands).

Remember at all times that the Republic server is a VPS.  The staff of
the company providing the VPS have, in principal, even more power than
root and the Republic administration is powerless to change this. In
practice it is highly unlikely that they are snooping on our files,
but it is not at all impossible.  The safest course of action is to
assume that *everything* you upload here is public, just to play it
safe, and use strong encryption for data you truly want to be private.

 * Unused Accounts and Account Deletion

You may, at any time, request that your Republic user account and all
files stored in your home directory, including your gopherhole, be
permanently deleted.  Such requests will be granted without question.

This promise is not a gimmick to tie into the Schismatrix theme.  It
is a recognition that the ability to delete your accounts from online
services is an important part of self-ownership of your digital
identity.  This is genuinely an important freedom and one which many
modern online services do not offer, or deliberately make very
difficult to access.

To claim your right, create a file with the filename
i-claim-my-civil-right in the top level of your home directory, with
the content "I claim my civil right.", and email
root@republic.circumlunar.space or slugmax@tilde.team.

If you claim your civil right, your account will not be "deactivated"
with a two week cool-down period during which you can change your
mind.  It will be totally and permanently removed as soon as possible.
Do not claim your civil right lightly.

Your account will also be deleted if one calendar month passes after
the creation of your account and your gopherspace is either still
empty, or contains only an absolute minimum of content, e.g. a "hello
world" note saying that the space is under construction.  As soon as
one item of genuine content is uploaded, your account is safe from
this consideration and can be updated very infrequently or abandoned
without risk of deletion.

 * Backups:

You are responsible for your own backups. We make system backups, but
these don't include user data or gopher content.

 * Logging:

Dropped traffic is logged by the firewall, but allowed traffic is
not. Some connection logs are kept at the application level
(e.g. auth.log for ssh connections) that record source IPs, these are
retained for a week. There are no IRC channel logs.

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