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Removal of piracy communities (self.lemmyworld)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lwadmin to c/lemmyworld
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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.

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[โ€“] joe 260 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (37 children)

Uh, @[email protected] .. what's up with the banning going on in this thread? I noticed on a.lemmy.org that someone was labeled "banned" and their comment was simply "Ight, Iโ€™m out"

The mod note was "Let us help you".

There are more similarly weak (spiteful?) bans that certainly don't seem to be at a standard for a ban. "Litterally 1984" was another one. Is that all it takes to be banned here?

Edit: Many (all?) the users I referenced as banned are now unbanned from the site, but now banned from this community.

[โ€“] zabil 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's very interesting, thank you for highlighting this. Edit: how are you seeing the bans? The link seems to be to a website sales platform.

I am very interested to see the justification for that ban - it seems extremely heavy handed.

For me, the exact same heavy handed, take it or leave it, attitude of the reddit admins is exactly what made me decide to leave that platform and come here instead.

The mod note is not encouraging.

[โ€“] M0oP0o 14 points 1 year ago

Click the mod log txt at the bottom of the site, you can then sort by action or user making changes.

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