A statement will follow from the admins. When exactly it will be, I honestly don’t know.
It really isn’t that hard to just make another account on whatever instance hosts your favorite piracy community. I don’t really see the problem here
I have like 8 accounts
Oh sure, let’s go to Reddit to talk about Lemmy
A fundamental weakness of Lemmy is that every instance has to mirror all the content it’s users have subscribed to. This means that each instance is hosting that content, and is legally liable for hosting it.
I can certainly understand why the admins would choose not to violate their country’s laws.
I can even understand them choosing to do things based on their personal morality, ethics, and biases since users can always choose to use a different instance at any point in time.
Absolutely - this is the strength of federation, and why I think communities should be distributed across many instances, while users can gather at instances where the administrative policies are consistent with their values.
Why unacceptable? As the runner of an instance I get to have control over my own little walled garden - it’s literally the primary strength of federation. If anyone, at any time, is unhappy with the content moderation policies of the admins of their Mastodon/Calckey/Peertube/Lemmy/kbin instance then they are able to find a new home - or maybe start one of their own, like dbzer0 did.
Who is going to pay for the legal fees if the admins get sued?
There were no legal issues or threats, it was just some troll with a brand new account from a different instance that tricked admins into blocking those communities. See the other post https://lemmy.world/post/3175920 (if it loads, lemmy.world having uptime issues as usual)
Most rational people choose to limit their exposure to liability before it happens rather than increase their exposure to liability and wait around to later have to defend themselves.
Are you suggesting the proper course is to maximize your exposure to liability and then be forced to defend yourself later?
Most rational people choose to limit their exposure to liability before it happens
I had a feeling someone was going to reply with the “let’s ban things because they might be problematic in the future” reasoning. What’s interesting with your line of thinking is that there are many more communities that Lemmy.world admins should also consider banning due to possibly being a legal issue later on. In fact Lemmy.world admins haven’t even banned all piracy related/adjacent communities, they literally only considered the select few that were mentioned by the troll account.
I’d argue with this action Lemmy.world admins have actually put themselves in a more legally dubious position. They are now picking and choosing which sorts of liability to be exposed to. There is now historical precedence that the Lemmy.world admins specifically choose what to keep unblocked on their instance.
The people who have to fight the battles are the people who ultimately should have the responsibility and the privilege of picking those battles, no?
Everything you said may be true, but it’s not you that would be responsible for fighting their battles is it?
They may be completely wrong…and they may be putting themselves in a more legally dubious position…but it is their battle to fight if it comes to that…so the ONLY people who should have a say in what battles they pick to fight are them, not you, not me.
No. As it says in the post you linked they just blocked the community.
It’s not just the biggest Pirate Community btw, it was one of (if not the) biggest Community across all of Lemmy.