There really hasn’t been much change in the hard right and hard left in the United States through its history. We’ve just fluctuated back and forth on what parts you dare say out loud.
You're missing the forest through the trees if your take is that anyone is directly comparing the severity of these two issues. The point is that any instance owner that doesn't have the proper framework in place to mount a legal argument or defense is in a highly vulnerable position regardless of the content.
Being in the right doesn't matter if you can't afford the price tag associated with proving it. Just responding to a subpoena or a lawsuit has a non-zero cost associated with it.
By design, yes, but there's a number of things that can go wrong that can cause the remote instances to not receive (or comply with) the instruction to do so.
Let's take the inflammatory subject solely to make a point.
If someone posted CP to !disney_pictures@lemmy.xyz, that content is then immediately copied to every instance that has at least one subscriber to !disney_pictures@lemmy.xyz. It now appears on NEW of the community and the front page of every single one of those instances. It's not a link to the content, it's the actual content, hosted on every single once of those instances.
You not convinced there's the potential for liability for every single one of those instances and their admins?
The risk, however, is that you're going to be potentially liable for things that you DON'T see but are hosting due to federation.
Not sure if it's actually XSS. Lemmy.world did have an admin account compromise so it could've been done locally.
It actually looks like it may be being propagated via comments. I received more than a handful from lemmy.world and it appears they were in the process of deleting them before they went dark. I nuked the remaining ones by hand but you can see that lemmy.blahaj.zone still has the same few remaining... https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/search?q=onload%3D&type=All&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll
Not to get off topic, but in this day and age that's not nearly the clear cut statement that it used to be.
muddybulldog
joined 1 year ago
I hate the fact that I know I’m inevitably going to buy this.