Removal of piracy communities
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:
We took this action to protect lemmy.world, lemmy.world's users, and lemmy.world staff as the material posted in those communities could be problematic for us, because of potential legal issues around copyrighted material and services that provide access to or assistance in obtaining it.
This decision is about liability and does not mean we are otherwise hostile to any of these communities or their users. As the Lemmyverse grows and instances get big, precautions may happen. We will keep monitoring the situation closely, and if in the future we deem it safe, we would gladly reallow these communities.
The discussions that have happened in various threads on Lemmy make it very clear that removing the communites before we announced our intent to remove them is not the level of transparency the community expects, and that as stewards of this community we need to be extremely transparent before we do this again in the future as well as make sure that we get feedback around what the planned changes are, because lemmy.world is yours as much as it is ours.
From what I can see it is informational only. There is no direct content linking, this does not sound illegal.
Illegal. WHERE?!
This doesn't apply to just Americans (though it is usually Americans who make the embedded assumption): THE LAW IS NOT JUST THE LAW WHERE YOU ARE! THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF COUNTRIES EACH WITH THEIR OWN LAWS!
Not sure what you mean. If I follow your reasoning, you can't do anything online because pretty much everything is illegal in Russia...
This is a bit off-topic but why do you have a bot account flag when you seem to be commenting as a normal user?
Thank you for notifying, I thought this Jerboa option was to display/show bot accounts !
I'm pretty sure bot accounts are always displayed, they use the bot flag to block the bots from communities that mods otherwise might not want them in.