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this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2023
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A single community was blocked due to a legal issue. It can be unblocked once the legal ramifications are resolved.
Legal ramifications in what way? And do we know that there was a dialog about this with the community mods? The one I looked at has rules against directly linking to infringing content, so it seem-- at least from where I'm sitting-- that blocking would not be an appropriate first step, instead opening a dialog with the mods/admins to moderate any offending content.
And, in case it needs saying-- US copyright law is not global copyright law, and discussing copyright infringement is not illegal.
Though, more to the point, this kind of poor communication-- if not the actions themselves-- makes me wonder if I should move to a new instance. I don't want to, but I also don't want admins making decisions without communicating them to the userbase, whether I personally agree with the decision or not. It certainly doesn't give the impression of transparency.
There wasn't any specific legal issue from what I know. This was triggered by a butthurt transphobic troll who got banned in lemmy.dbzer0.com and then opened the call to defed. Then lemmy.world preemptively blocked the pirate communities, just in case
The image cache on the LW server is a likely reason for the legal issues.
I truly don't mean to be dense, but I don't follow. We're talking about piracy, right? What images are of concern there, and why does the first step to resolving it have to be blocking instead of communication?
Federated servers are cached on other Federated servers. That is how you can see LW on another instance even when it is being DDOSed. It looks like LW removed the cache for that one community and blocked it from being saved on their server.
I get that, but what images would be of concern in a piracy-focused community?
Apparently this.
For me, it's not that the community was blocked. That is the prerogative of lemmy.world admins. My problem is it wasn't announced here, it was only announced on Discord. That feels like they don't respect us as users of their community unless we're that deeply invested.
It wasn't announced anywhere. I'd wait and see what is announced. If the admins were served they might not legally be able to talk about it yet.
OP claims the opposite.
Anyone that has seen this discord post knows there is a lot more to it than what was posted here.
That's sort of the point.
Here's the announcement for anyone who wants to see I guess
Not all of us are simps for media conglomerates and publishers
So you want servers shut down and admins arrested?
That's not the issue op is discussing. At least read their post before commenting.