@jsit I'm very much Not A Lawyer but this looks like a useful reference for instance admins: https://denise.dreamwidth.org/91757.html
and as regards the list maintainers, I'd expect them to be a target of lawsuits claiming restrictions on free speech from owners of excluded servers. I can't speak to whether such lawsuits would have merit, but even their existence would be expensive.
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I'm beginning to wonder if the only solution to hate speech and harassment on the Fediverse might be allowlist-only instances.@jsit @timbray That would render it almost impossible to run a small or personal instance (you'd have to get onto the allow-list before you could communicate with anyone), forcing everyone onto fewer large instances, leaving us with "distributed twitter" rather than full federation. You'd likely get balkanization into a number of non-communicating clusters.
Also, both that "trusted group of people" and the managers of the resulting large instances would be exposed to huge legal liability.