Zak
@Zak@lemmy.world
- Comment on Please stop blocking VPNs for established accounts 6 months ago:
An investigator asking a question is not liability, and I don’t believe any of the safe harbor or platform immunity laws in the EU or USA condition their protections on denying service to users from IP addresses belonging to providers that don’t provide a certain level of assistance to law enforcement. I’m nearly certain you can’t get in any kind of legal trouble for not blocking privacy-protecting services like Mullvad.
That’s separate from the operational concern: you don’t want people to post CSAM. I don’t want people to post CSAM. Nearly everyone else doesn’t want people to post CSAM, and most of us are willing to accept some level of inconvenience so that you can prevent or limit it. That said, once Lemmy offers more fine-grained tools, I hope lemmy.world will adopt a more fine-grained policy.
- Comment on Please stop blocking VPNs for established accounts 6 months ago:
I think this is a misunderstanding of the legal situation at least for the US and EU. Platform immunity and safe harbor provisions are pretty strong in those jurisdictions, and the fact that the trail goes cold with the IP address (because it’s a non-logging VPN) does not shift liability back to the platform operator.
- Comment on Please stop blocking VPNs for established accounts 6 months ago:
That’s definitely a concern. I selected my provider (Mullvad) because I know someone who worked there, and I have fairly high confidence they don’t do that.
- Comment on Please stop blocking VPNs for established accounts 6 months ago:
Proposing changes like this is how open source projects work.
Account age and reputation metrics are a pretty good way to limit abuse because the supply of established accounts is limited, making them difficult to replace when they get banned.
- Comment on Please stop blocking VPNs for established accounts 6 months ago:
We are NOT a dark web service where everyone needs to be under tor, vpn, proxy, and back again.
ISPs in some parts of the world spy on users to, for example sell their browsing habits to advertisers and data brokers. That’s a good motivation for some people to browse via VPN by default, not to enable it only when accessing specific sites.
- Comment on Please stop blocking VPNs for established accounts 6 months ago:
Thanks for the explanation. It seems I should be proposing improvements to the Lemmy software since the software doesn’t currently support the policy I’m suggesting.
- Submitted 6 months ago to support@lemmy.world | 30 comments
- Comment on Piracy related communities removal 7 months ago:
Without taking any stance on what the rules should be, I’ll re-quote this for emphasis:
we need to be extremely transparent before we do this again in the future
Instead, we have communities banned without a public post or opportunity for community members to engage with the admins making the decision. I joined lemmy.world before it was the biggest instance or anybody’s idea of the default because I was aware of mastodon.world and had the impression it was well-managed. I’m starting to lose that impression here, and I don’t like it.
- Comment on Image uploads blocked by Cloudflare 1 year ago:
No
- Comment on Image uploads blocked by Cloudflare 1 year ago:
This is a test from a different connection.
- Comment on Image uploads blocked by Cloudflare 1 year ago:
I was not using a VPN when the issue occurred.
- Submitted 1 year ago to support@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on How do you currently handle Covid infections? 1 year ago:
Many people seem to be treating it differently now because the average person who catches it has milder symptoms than a couple years ago. The potential for long-term consequences seems to be left out of the conversation.
- Comment on All but one light bulbs are warm 1 year ago:
A simple web search finds a bunch of screw-in bulbs using LED sources in 1800K, which is similar to an incandescent bulb on a dimmer at a low setting, or a candle. A typical incandescent at full brightness is 2700K. Daytime sunlight is 5000-5700K.
- Comment on All but one light bulbs are warm 1 year ago:
LEDs can be warm. Someone just selected a mismatched bulb.
