Removal of piracy communities - Lemmy.world
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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: - !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com [/c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com] - !piracy@lemmy.ml [/c/piracy@lemmy.ml] - !steamdeckpirates@lemmy.dbzer0.com [/c/steamdeckpirates@lemmy.dbzer0.com] 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.
  • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
    12·
    11 months ago

    The problem with your reasoning is that these communities aren’t providing/hosting any illegal content. Furthermore, “legal” where? US law doesn’t apply outside of the US and vice versa.

    • sab@kbin.social
      12·
      11 months ago

      My reasoning is fine. Discussion of illegal content, if we have to be completely pedantic. Which we don’t.

      The fediverse doesn’t need to be a unitary blob - in fact, it shouldn’t be a unitary blob. An instance could block any instance where the use of the letter “e” is allowed would be completely legitimate (though the number of federated instances would be limited).

      Though they have no moral obligations whatsoever to do so, it’s fair to expect Lemmy.world to have predictable rules and relatively stable policies as it is the most mainstream instance and has a bunch of users. And honestly, for the biggest, most mainstream instance, banning the discussion of piracy is pretty predictable. It’s simply not the kind of thing joining the largest platform of the Threadiverse is good for.

      If you don’t like it, this is why this place is federated in the first place. It’s literally like this by design. Just stop complaining and use some other instance instead, it costs you nothing.

      • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
        11·
        11 months ago

        It isn’t pedantry as there aren’t discussions of illegal content occurring either. If I talk about torrents (not illegal) I’m not breaking the law or discussing anything illegal. Neither is a discussion about Qbittorrent or Jellyfin. Neither is a discussion about the hardware needed to seed 1000 different Linux ISOs. Don’t let your ignorance of the topic blind you.

        Can you point to the illegality of this post? https://beehaw.org/post/7156567

        Do you agree that !gaming@beehaw.org should also be defederated now for posting illegal content?

        Also, I am already using a different instance if that wasn’t obvious enough.

      • Gork@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Hmm I shall possibly join that community to boycott this symbol, too.