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Removal of piracy communities (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lwadmin@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@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:

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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[-] pozbo@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Because you're so scared of corporate lawsuits you may as well defederate from any union-positive instances as well.

Just to mitigate risk of corporations that wouldn't appreciate it at all. Never know when you might get sued.

[-] Acid2688@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I wasn't aware that unions were illegal.

[-] pozbo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh, they aren't. But they are a stick in the side of the corpos and for that reason it is unwise to host any of those discussions.

Also, not every lawsuit is backed by an actual law. You don't need to be the victim of a broken law to sue anyone, not in this jurisdiction anyhow.

[-] Weslee@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

And trans communities giving help and advice to trans kids, We've seen those spaces and organisations being attacked in the USA... How long until L.W is too afraid of legal action from those?

Or gay rights, or women's rights, when does it end?