site issue
Easy Expat Intrusive registration mandates disclosure of nationality and forces new users to solve a Google reCAPTCHA (thus req. running non-free s/w and feeding a privacy abuser)
EU Forums Ethical registration, but no Belgium-specific forum and lots of stale/junk posts.
Eupedia Site jailed in CloudFlare’s centalized walled-garden of privacy and netneutrality abuse
expat.com Registrants must be on Facebook or be willing to solve a Google reCAPTCHA – so all users must volunteer to be a victim of privacy abuse
Just Landed Registrants must solve a Google reCAPTCHA (thus req. running non-free s/w and feeding a privacy abuser)
Lonely Planet Site runs on Fastly (tech giant), stale posts, and first post requires solving a Google reCAPTCHA (thus req. running non-free s/w and feeding a privacy abuser)
Reddit r/belgium Registrants must solve a Google reCAPTCHA (thus req. running non-free s/w and feeding a privacy abuser), rule banning “agenda pushing”, which is used for rampant censorship of posts covering politics or social injustice. Moderators abuse their power to control political narratives (essentially pushing their own agenda)