• paf0@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s not censorship, it’s just smart people protecting themselves from liability. Some things are clearly illegal and the admins should not be expected to take the heat for people who participate in those illegal activities.

    • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Some things are clearly illegal and the admins should not be expected to take the heat for people who participate in those illegal activities.

      But aren’t they protected under the same laws that other sites like Reddit are already protected under?

      As far as being responsible for what their users post, last I heard that already had laws that protected the sites that hosted them so they were not responsible.

      IANAL.

      • DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 year ago

        Legal / illegal is the wrong term here because this type of thing is a civil matter.

        If you were a volunteer admin and receive a cease and desist notice from an expensive law firm with an army of lawyers representing a client with infinite money, what would you do?

        Would you pay your own lawyers out of your own pocket to stand up for your freedoms and rights, or would you just roll over and let someone else take up that fight? Would definitely be the latter for me.

      • Metz@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Lemmy.world is hosted on a german Server and afaik run by german people. Hosting or even just linking to anything piracy related in germany would be suicide.

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            1 year ago

            My bad. I was sure i read somewhere they are hosted in germany. guess i was wrong. Still, hosting or linking to illegal stuff inside the EU is probably still a very bad idea. apart from it violating the ToS of the hoster (Hetzner).