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Why does no one understand that the admins don’t want the instance to be shut down and they don’t want to be arrested???

I am very pro-piracy, but I would never host a piracy community because I don’t want to be freaking jailed. Governments view those that host piracy and piracy communities much more harshly than random participants.

Is everyone on this website 12 years old and not understanding of real world consequences???

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ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Fucking amen. It sucks but it’s a fact of life. LW is covering their asses like any of us would

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r1veRRR@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Because from everything I’ve seen, those communities did not do ANYTHING illegal. They talked about software that can be used that way, but if we go by that measure, discussing any Fediverse software is illegal, because you could use that to host illegal content.

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- dingus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  No, they haven’t done anything illegal yet. But the key word is “yet” and the admins obviously don’t want to risk it.
  
  If it was your ass on the line for potential prison time, I’m sure you’d have a different opinion.
  
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  - r1veRRR@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    But that’s true of literally every single community. Posting copyrighted images in a pics community, copyrighted music in a little video/gif, a nazi denying the holocaust (illegal in Germany) in one little comment a hundred comments in…
    
    Who do you think is more likely to overstep? A community very well aware of the risks and the scrutiny they are under, full of people that are themselves aware of the risks, or some rando on some random community?
    
    Obviously, they are allowed to ban or not ban whatever they want, but I just think it’s a very short sighted, quickfire decision.
    
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  - Reliant1087@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Why stop there, why not defedrate from all NSFW communities because they could post questionable content in the future?
    
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    dingus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Well I thoguht they already have with the porn instances that actively center around and post things like loli, no??
    
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SRo@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
They just should shut down their instance if they can’t run it without defederation excessively, blocking communities and even using a word filter.

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