cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3191819
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/3305498
After a thread was made in !support@lemmy.world asking to defederate from lemmy.dbzer0.com for “the facilitation of piracy, and copyright infringement in general which is illegal”, the admins of lemmy.world deleted it prompting discussions on !asklemmy[@]lemmy.ml and !piracy[@]lemmy.dbzer0.com.
Maybe they decided that they couldn’t maintain deniable plausibility of not knowing it existed with it being directly brought up in their support community
These are individuals volunteering their time to host a community and they don’t have deep pockets so they have to shield themselves from liability. I don’t blame them from deleting content from piracy, drug use, or porn communities because they could be held liable for the content. Even if it’s within their rights and they are not technically liable, any lawsuit will bring these small Lemmy communities down immediately