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Was this community banned on lemmy.world? I was trying to access some bookmarked posts and comments but they weren't there. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As stated in the title, I went to some posts and comments that I had bookmarked for some media that I was trying to download. This was on my lemmy.world account. Turns out they're gone. Doing some digging and found out this community was still up but wasn't visible on lemmy.world. what happend?

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

.world pre-emptively blocked the piracy comms because they are ostensibly based in Germany and have to abide by EU rules re: promotion/discussion of copyright infringement.

Despite the fact that they were never even issued a warning for such an obscure internet forum, and plausible deniability because the content wasn't even theirs, they thought it's better be ~~paranoid~~ safe than sorry.

ETA: so now .world has a stricter and more draconian policy regarding the discussion of piracy than Reddit, a publically traded entity based in the US, which has even harsher copyright infringement laws.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago

The thing is, Reddit also has money and lawyers. LW doesn't, so it's understandable that they play it safe imo.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Heh, nothing of value is lost, anyway.