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The problem is this is still pretty vague. The communities that were blocked weren’t sharing copyrighted material, but resources for finding and sharing said material. You might think this is being overly literal but I’m pretty sure it’s the same loophole that allows reddit to host r/piracy without getting into legal trouble.
On the other hand, if we take this rule at face value it could be interpreted as not allowing the sharing of any kind of content without the express permission of the creators. This could include photographs, artwork, videos, and maybe more.
So it’s not an issue of people being lazy or ignorant, but overly broad/vague rules
Did you read the LW TOS? It’s the first rule.
The problem is this is still pretty vague. The communities that were blocked weren’t sharing copyrighted material, but resources for finding and sharing said material. You might think this is being overly literal but I’m pretty sure it’s the same loophole that allows reddit to host r/piracy without getting into legal trouble.
On the other hand, if we take this rule at face value it could be interpreted as not allowing the sharing of any kind of content without the express permission of the creators. This could include photographs, artwork, videos, and maybe more.
So it’s not an issue of people being lazy or ignorant, but overly broad/vague rules
I won’t claim to be an expert in EU laws, but I know they have strong copyright laws in place that could be a legal issue for LW.
To be fair, CoC was recently updated. It was originally pointing to mastodon.world/about which is a little vague on rule 1.
That would require people to read what they sign up for