Abuse report via Hetzner

A few days ago, on the 14th of December I got an abuse report from our hosting company Hetzner via email that had me a little bit flabbergasted.

The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media in Russia apparently demanded the takedown of the official account for @Bellingcat account on mstdn.social, one of the Mastodon instances I host.

Abuse report for the IP for mstdn.social
The email in English

Ofcourse I denied the 'request' and shared this publicly on Mastodon:

Response from Hetzner

Today December the 16th I got a reply from Hetzner directly and it said what we all hoped for!