Advocating piracy is one thing, but now banning people for believing in copyright? That’s like banning people for following the law. That is banning people for following the law. What gives? And to think a while ago I declared I wouldn’t have any reason to not take their bans (or the motives behind them) seriously.
Are we trying to get world governments to ban Lemmy (or, worse, the fediverse)? Love the administrative decisions or hate them, such decisions will drag down the whole fediverse. Typically sites are defederated to protect the sites defederating them from liability. Will this be an example, or does this, out of convenience, not apply? Are we forgetting a large portion of the fediverse’s demographics consist of artists trying to make a damn living?
Without knowing the context of those bans, it’s kinda hard to say whether your take of them being “simply for believing in the concept of copyright” is actually anywhere close to reality or not.
Based on past experience of people posting hyperbolic claims about “instance X banning people for Y”, it’s never actually about Y.
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What subreddit has this happened in? I’ve used Reddit daily for a decade and only experienced this once.
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So all those times people in Fedilore said “so-and-so was banned for so-and-so reason”, it was premature to say so?
Depends on the amount of hyperbole, and getting banned for “believing in the concept of copyright” definitely smells like hyperbole.
It’s there in the fine print.