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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem is that read access for a user means the content is cached on the instance of that user, making the instance owner potentially liable if we are talking about content illegal in their jurisdiction.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Good point, I hadn't considered that. But an instance can still strive to keep its blocklist as small as legally possible. This wouldn't be a big issue in most liberal countries anyway I think.