Unpopular Opinion
Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!
How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
view the rest of the comments
Are they still hosting nsfw communities? Are mot those also a legal liability?
Some form (most forms?) of porn are legal in most places. Piracy isn't legal in most places.
I'm not defending porn or saying piracy is bad, but legally I understand they don't want to open themselves up to liability.
It'd be lovely if we could start codifying abandonware... or better yet, return copyright law to reasonable lengths (20 years)
But for a copyright pov they are even worse that piracy communities (I have nsfw turned off here, but in reddit it was full of people sharing copyrighted pictures).
That's just in general the problem with the Internet. I'd love pics groups to be just user created pics. But unfortunately it seems like people think they can screen grab, download, or just link to any picture on the internet with no attribution or proof they have the rights to use it.
People seem to wake up when you post every picture from a comic book or manga but I wonder if someone took every photograph or painting by a famous artist and posted it. I imagine most people would highly upvotes that instead of calling it out for what it is.
Porn is lot more dangerous for the gov. Stepping in. CP is a huge issue when allowing porn.
The difference is that Id immediately switch instances if I thought the mods/admins would fight the govt for even a second on handing over the IP addresses of anyone suspected of CP.
Pirate or dont pirate. I dont care, but I expect the admins to narc hard and fast on anyone posting CP. Dont even wait for the cops to knock, email them yourselves, turn the cunts straight in.
The word was porn. Lemmy world already federated from at least one server in regards to CP. But fear of CP isn't enough to block all porn. Piracy though is always illegal and that's why it's more strict than some titties and ass.
But discussion about piracy isn't. As far as I know, linking to copyrighted material on those communities is forbidden.
Shhh! You trying to wake the bear?