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Because they’re Redditeurs
lemmy.world mission statement: “We will make reddit, but somehow even worse”
Because piracy is illegal and the mods of lemmy.world are afraid of getting in legal trouble.
but lemmy is a very small project compared to reddit,which has r/piracy active with no problems, and the piracy communities here don’t share links for example, so it just seems like paranoia from the admins of lemmy.world.
It being small might be part of the problem. Reddit has more money to fight legal battles than lemmy.world
That makes it even easier for big companies to bully you. If you’re a big company you can actually afford a lawyer to tell these parasites to fuck off.
It takes very little to sue a small project out of existence. It’s a risk they can’t take.
yeah I can’t blame anyone for not wanting to paint that target on their own backs
The thing about free speech is that there’s a whole lot of legislation surrounding it. At the moment, every single fediverse instance is run by( a small group of) people, many of them are run by individuals who are legally responsible for the content that’s posted on their site.
In addition, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, better known as the DMCA and the General Data Protection Regulation, the GDPR, have requirements for people who own and publish data, like the people who run instances, not to mention privacy acts and myriad other provisions and laws.
Non compliance is very easy and costly, so instances who are aware of this are cautious in what they allow on their instance.
Finally, many instances want to create a community with a social cohesion and associated standards that they, depending on the level, encourage or enforce.
Why any instance bans something at any one time can generally be traced back to these reasons.
Of course there are also instances where it’s completely open season. Don’t expect these to stick around once lawyers get involved.
