Comment on PSA: the largest piracy community is blocked from lemmy.world
WheatleyInc@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Fact is, they have good reasons to. Lemmy likely was threatened by a larger industry that could’ve thrown millions of dollars around in a court to get Lemmy taken down. The guys running Lemmy wouldn’t have enough money to win a lawsuit, the website could easily be taken down by a larger entity. When it comes to losing the community or blocking a couple communities, it’s an easy choice. Funny how the Lemmy admins are being blamed for this, when it’s a choice between a couple communities or the whole site.
Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I guess the problem from an idealistic standpoint is fine, let them sue. Hosting an instance is not about being profitable. Do what you need to do as far as shell corporation and all that to protect your personal finances, or just close the instance instead of censoring.
Now, it’s just an instance that is perpetuating unfair systems of power, instance of helping to democratize the internet.