• Alt+F4@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    To everyone ready with their pitchforks, here is a scenario: lemmy.world may receive a court order (subpoena?) mandating they disclose data on people actively accessing pirate communities. As it happened with Reddit, they may ask for logs and IP addresses of people commenting, posting or perhaps even up/down voting content.

    Even though none of the content is being posted/hosted with this instance, admins may be asked to betray user trust - or to go battle claimants in court. It’s a lose-lose for them, so maybe let’s cut them some slack, eh?

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      1 year ago

      Yup, they’re a big target and being a big target means more liability. Spreading the fediverse is good for us all. It means taking down piracy is like whack a mole.