Official Statement from Lemmy.world admin about community removal

alexandrite.app Removal of piracy communities - Lemmy.world

Earlier, after review, we blocked and removed several communities that were providing assistance to access copyrighted/pirated material, which is currently not allowed per Rule #1 of our Code of Conduct. The communities that were removed due to this decision were: - !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com [/c/pira...

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Absurd. None of these communities are even hosted on lemmy.world.
lemmy.world has more downtime than France's administration anyway,. so at least we can still sail the high seas while they're down.
- Absurd. None of these communities are even hosted on lemmy.world.
  This is the answer, period. They aren't hosting infringing content, they're barely even linking to discussion of it. Most of the piracy communities here on Lemmy all have rules about not directly linking to any infringing content.
  It's a fucking joke by people who think they're doing something to protect their users but are actually just fucking around wasting time and energy.
  
  they are, post and comments are mirrored on all federated instances.
  
  piracy communities here on Lemmy all have rules about not directly linking to any infringing content.
  
  Which are worth nothing in the case of a legal battle.

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