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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:

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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[–] nick@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Coward shit.

[–] nickknack@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

If you're going to ban piracy you should also ban all pro copyright communities and comments, it's only fair.

[–] aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

grabs popcorn

  • me, a lemmy.dbzer0.com native
[–] turkishdelight@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

lemmy.world has become reddit.

[–] kn98@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This sort for reminds me of a Sybil attack.

I think it’s a good idea for everyone to register at an obscure Lemmy instance. If everyone’s on lemmy.world, it isn’t truly federated.

Reddit allows piracy communities. These Lemmy communities aren’t hosted on your servers. That’s the whole thing - dbzer0.com and lemmy.ml are taking the risks, though there probably aren’t many risks in the first place.

[–] esty@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

is this the new most downvoted post on lemmy?

Yeeeep. I stopped using my LW account once you people simped to Facebook federation.

[–] Secret300@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Definitely think you should allow them again. Obviously not on your instance but restricting access to other instances is just not right. I do understand the concern though, I really hope in the end you realllow them.

[–] Hawk@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My biggest complaint about lemmy is the lack of content and censorship.

The only meaningful lemmy is dbz0.

If i want to read about cybersec, darknet, drugs etc. Reddit has far more content and far more discussion with less censorship -- which is insane because they just about create everything now.

[–] Rooki@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

The thing is, the fediverse dont have a budget for lawyers that fight each and every single takedown request.

[–] GONADS125@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

While I'm not ethically opposed pirating, I understand and would probably do the same for a server I was hosting. Anybody remember Kim Dotcom's mansion raid?

What I do not understand is blocking a community surrounding magic mushrooms.. No one is going to prosecute the L.W admins for people discussing shrooms/their use...

Substances are legal/illegal depending on where one lives, just like weed which is apparently perfectly fine to post here, even tho possession is a death sentence in some countries.

It simply doesn't logically follow that weed, or even alcohol communities are permissible while a shroom community is not.

Banning any content deemed illegal in any country in the world establishes a very dangerous precedence (if that's the justification here). Free speech/dissenting from the government is illegal in many places in the world.

One thing the community must remember tho, is that you have to operate your server in accordance with the law in which country you're hosting it (in this case Germany).

I'll gladly admit I'm not too familiar with German law, but it seems unreasonable to expect government persecution for hosting servers which hosts a shroom discussion community.

[–] craktok@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Wow. It’s amazing the replies here. If you want to steal other peoples work, then go elsewhere. No one owes you the right to steal other peoples content.

[–] Odo@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago

Lovely this happened because someone complained after being banned from the piracy instance for being a transphobic asshole.

[–] Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You're not allowed to discuss piracy. You wouldn't talk about stealing a car would you?

Delete this.

[–] cerevant@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You are allowed to discuss piracy. You aren’t allowed to facilitate piracy (I.e. providing links to pirated content). It is illegal in the country where this instance is hosted.

[–] CaptainEffort@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That community never linked to pirated content, you goose

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[–] nexguy@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

I don't understand why people are upset even a little about this. This is a prefect advert for the fediverse. If you are not completely happy with an instance(which can never realistically happen) then you just host your own or have multiple accounts. Apps have this built in and easily accessible. Why do people want to concentrate everything they want into one instance? What if that instance goes down? This should not be hated or applauded.... just ignored as the way the fediverse should work. Don't get too attached to any single instance.

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