Lemmy.World Announcements

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[–] Senseibu@feddit.uk 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

It’s a free society here, if Lemmy really takes off its most likely going to happen and you’re free to partake in the joke or not.

Lemmy is here to serve all, I imagine some hard boundaries around illegal content will be put in place though.

De-federation can happen for that sort of scenario

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[–] Dustmuffins@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago

Well I'm certainly not above low effort shitposting.

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[–] Goldenderp@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

That legal/illegal thing is going to be tricky to figure out. What's illegal exactly in a global federated social network? Whose law applies?

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[–] neblem@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

The instance's hosting country's law applies to the instance and the communities it hosts.

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[–] Goldenderp@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

Displaying illegal content from the fediverse is fine?

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[–] neblem@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago

Its a bit complicated. EFF has a good post from a US perspective https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer . My understanding for US instances (and IANAL), is that if you have a TOS banning illegal content, register for a DMCA agent, and remove illegal content in a reasonably fast timeframe when you have knowledge of it, and ban repeat offenders, you should be okay.