Well, that's not that easy. If you host abroad you also subject yourself to the laws of that country. The consequences could be pretty messy, especially if you assume that the laws work the same as in your own country.
E.g. the Americans are used to the first amendment protections even for stuff like holocaust denial, white supremacism, outright racism and similar. However, if your hosting happens to be in Germany (or many other EU countries with similar laws), you will get hammered, because publishing stuff like that is illegal there - the hate speech laws are much tougher and there are also specific laws covering stuff like holocaust, nazism, etc.
Or here in France we have a "wonderful" law that makes it a crime to say anything that could be considered as "apology of terrorism". Basically as little as a tweet saying that "They had it coming" (or something to that effect) in relation to a terrorist attack could land you in legal hot water with a large fine (most common, up to $120000 possible) or even a prison sentence (up to 7 years is possible). And that's not a theoretical thing - there have been several high profile prosecutions like this already, most recently a left wing former MP publicly praising the death of the French police colonel who exchanged himself for a hostage during an attack. He said something to the effect that one more dead cop means fewer cops to attack people (he was referring to a high profile police brutality case here) - but that was enough to get him arrested and will most likely earn him a hefty fine.
Now imagine that you are hosting a forum where people are debating or posting things like that - you will have to cooperate with the authorities, take the posts down and hand over any relevant information about the users involved or you can be held co-responsible for the crime. In such case you could face prosecution, have the website seized, etc.
So not all is rosy on this side of the Atlantic neither.
Regarding the French terrorist attack, it happened in a supermarket and one of the victims was a butcher. One vegan wrote a comment on this death and also got indicted for "apology of terrorism"
E.g. the Americans are used to the first amendment protections even for stuff like holocaust denial, white supremacism, outright racism and similar. However, if your hosting happens to be in Germany (or many other EU countries with similar laws), you will get hammered, because publishing stuff like that is illegal there - the hate speech laws are much tougher and there are also specific laws covering stuff like holocaust, nazism, etc.
Or here in France we have a "wonderful" law that makes it a crime to say anything that could be considered as "apology of terrorism". Basically as little as a tweet saying that "They had it coming" (or something to that effect) in relation to a terrorist attack could land you in legal hot water with a large fine (most common, up to $120000 possible) or even a prison sentence (up to 7 years is possible). And that's not a theoretical thing - there have been several high profile prosecutions like this already, most recently a left wing former MP publicly praising the death of the French police colonel who exchanged himself for a hostage during an attack. He said something to the effect that one more dead cop means fewer cops to attack people (he was referring to a high profile police brutality case here) - but that was enough to get him arrested and will most likely earn him a hefty fine.
Now imagine that you are hosting a forum where people are debating or posting things like that - you will have to cooperate with the authorities, take the posts down and hand over any relevant information about the users involved or you can be held co-responsible for the crime. In such case you could face prosecution, have the website seized, etc.
So not all is rosy on this side of the Atlantic neither.