@p @amerika @dcc @ryan @f0x @jae @sicp @amerika @dsm @sevvie @sysrq @ins0mniak @mint @prettygood Oh wait shit I was repeating misinformation

> The other legal hurdle is the myth that the law of naval warfare prohibits U.S. privateering. This confusion arises because some scholars assert that the 1856 Paris Declaration—whose first article banned privateering between the treaty parties—somehow established a customary international prohibition on privateering.3 However, the United States refused to sign the Declaration because it was a bad deal in light of the comparatively small U.S. Navy of the day.4

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2020/april/us-privateering-legal

Yar har me mateys, the fedi fleet sails at high tide