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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by DudePluto@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/2881638

The largest piracy community is hosted over at !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

lemmy.world has blocked it. It appears to have also blocked !piracy@lemmy.ml.

If this is a problem for you, I'd suggest migrating accounts using LASIM to an instance that doesn't block it (such as lemm.ee).

edit:

An official announcement has been made:

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[-] silvercove@lemdro.id 55 points 1 year ago

lemmy.world admins need a lesson on the Streisand Effect.

[-] LufyCZ@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 1 year ago

They don't care about people using it, they might even personally do it themselves.

It's about reducing their liability, which this does just fine

[-] BA834024112@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 year ago

This isn't an example of Streisand effect

[-] silvercove@lemdro.id -1 points 1 year ago

Lots of people learned about this community thanks to the news that lemmy.world admins are blocking it.

[-] poopsmith@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

It's the largest community by subscribers, I would be surprised if folks haven't came across it by now...

[-] rbhfd@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

They aren't trying to get the community removed, they just don't want to host their content.

So bringing attention to it is not at odds with their goals.

[-] tea@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago

Exactly. This is about protecting themselves from legal liability, not anything else. As the guy who hosts it is just a regular guy, not a corporation with limited liability/tons of startup dollarbucks, I don't begrudge him/them at all.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

They aren't blocking it because they don't like it. They're blocking it because they're concerned about the liability.

[-] silvercove@lemdro.id -2 points 1 year ago

I don't care why they are blocking it. They blocked it, so I quit lemmy.world.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

That's fine, I never said you shouldn't have.

[-] souperk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead backfires by increasing awareness of that information. It is named after American singer and actress Barbra Streisand, whose attempt to suppress the California Coastal Records Project's photograph of her cliff-top residence in Malibu, California, taken to document California coastal erosion, inadvertently drew greater attention to the photograph in 2003.

(I needed a lesson myself)

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

And the reason this isn't an example of that is that Lemmy.world isn't attempting to keep anyone from going to c/piracy, they just don't want the liability of having it on their servers. Anyone can very easily make another account and go there.

[-] Subverb@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I remember when this happened. Few people noticed or cared about the picture if her house until she tried to have it removed. Then it was suddenly on every blog site and news agency.

[-] rhythmicotter@midwest.social -2 points 1 year ago

The fact you assumed this was ideologically motivated is insane. Do you have any critical thinking skills?

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