Earlier, after review, we blocked and removed several communities that were providing assistance to access copyrighted/pirated material, which is currently not allowed per Rule #1 of our Code of Conduct. The communities that were removed due to this decision were:
We took this action to protect lemmy.world, lemmy.world’s users, and lemmy.world staff as the material posted in those communities could be problematic for us, because of potential legal issues around copyrighted material and services that provide access to or assistance in obtaining it.
This decision is about liability and does not mean we are otherwise hostile to any of these communities or their users. As the Lemmyverse grows and instances get big, precautions may happen. We will keep monitoring the situation closely, and if in the future we deem it safe, we would gladly reallow these communities.
The discussions that have happened in various threads on Lemmy make it very clear that removing the communites before we announced our intent to remove them is not the level of transparency the community expects, and that as stewards of this community we need to be extremely transparent before we do this again in the future as well as make sure that we get feedback around what the planned changes are, because lemmy.world is yours as much as it is ours.
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This is misinformation, straight up. They did not block an instance, they blocked communities; and Lemmy replicates all content to the server it’s being viewed from, so they would likely be liable.
Did that actually happen? It looks like they just blocked those specific communities… Which seems completely fair
Are you going to pay the Lemmy admins legal fees when Hollywood comes after them? In no part of your complaint did I see you volunteering to do so.
This argument keeps showing up again and again. “The point of the Fediverse is to stay connected.”
Someone want to point out the logic that is supposed to underlie this? Because I think a small subset of people has just completely made it up themselves.
As far as I can see, we were given tools for things like defederation and blocking for a reason. Those tools did not need to get made, that took someone’s time and investment, so it must’ve been pretty important if they already got around to it.
You’re right, the existence of a tool justifies any abusive use of the tool. Every instance should block every community and we should all get our own private instances and block each other.
Ah, a slippery slope/exaggeration argument.
Still doesn’t answer my question though.
It’s not slippery slope because we have already been instance-hopping as every instance defederates and bans and defederates and bans, all the while we are ridiculed for expressing a desire to be connected, told to get lost.
Sure, whatever. Still hoping someone can answer my question.
I’m happy to see that’s a lawyer had stepped in to let us know there could never ever be any legal consequences whatsoever for federating with any other instance regardless of what they post. You are a lawyer right? And your E&O insurance will protect you if you’re wrong and give advice that gets us sued or jailed?