It’s not censorship, it’s just smart people protecting themselves from liability. Some things are clearly illegal and the admins should not be expected to take the heat for people who participate in those illegal activities.
Comment on PSA: the largest piracy community is blocked from lemmy.world
AnimusAstralis@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And here I thought that Fediverse was serious about being an alternative to heavily censored platforms. Now I see it’s just a joke.
paf0@lemmy.world 10 months ago
silvercove@lemdro.id 10 months ago
That’s why I moved away from lemmy.world. I don’t want such admins.
samus12345@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And that’s the fediverse working as intended.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Some things are clearly illegal and the admins should not be expected to take the heat for people who participate in those illegal activities.
But aren’t they protected under the same laws that other sites like Reddit are already protected under?
As far as being responsible for what their users post, last I heard that already had laws that protected the sites that hosted them so they were not responsible.
IANAL.
DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Legal / illegal is the wrong term here because this type of thing is a civil matter.
If you were a volunteer admin and receive a cease and desist notice from an expensive law firm with an army of lawyers representing a client with infinite money, what would you do?
Would you pay your own lawyers out of your own pocket to stand up for your freedoms and rights, or would you just roll over and let someone else take up that fight? Would definitely be the latter for me.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Legal / illegal is the wrong term here because this type of thing is a civil matter.
Has it been ever a civil matter for any other company that hosts? I have not heard of any lawsuits of any kind for decades at this point.
As far as I know this is completely and absolutely settled, with no concern about future litigation possible.
IANAL.
Metz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Lemmy.world is hosted on a german Server and afaik run by german people. Hosting or even just linking to anything piracy related in germany would be suicide.
samus12345@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Finnish server, main admin is Dutch.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 10 months ago
For the individual, but not for the website hosting the comment (at least in the U.S.). IANAL.
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
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It’s not censorship, it’s a liability/legal issue.
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This isn’t “the fediverse”, it’s a single instance.
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You can move to a dedicated piracy instance or start your own.
Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Exactly
I just logged into my user from lemmy.dbzer0.com instead of .world
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PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They banned the shrooms community too. So glad I never volunteered to help these people…
delirium@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Not like you can’t access their community anymore
michael@lemmy.perthchat.org 10 months ago
Go back to Reddit.
Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 10 months ago
The only thing it’s serious about us being a decentralized platform - if you want to access something, then choose an instance who’se admins are serious about being heavily censored.
It’s the old adage of “if you don’t like something, do something about it”
The fediverse gives you the tools and ability to surf the fediverse how you want, all through decentralization. Don’t like the rules on one instance? Move, simple as that.
It’s the same context of “vote with your wallet” - only put your accounts and time into instances you want to put your account on and only donate to instances you want to donate to, vote with your time and money, that’s how we can make this platform better, for ourselves and for others.