I’ve seen the controversy where lemmy.world defederated from 2 piracy instances. So since there is no one big owner what is stopping someone creating a instance that host CP or other illegal stuff?
From what it seems like is instances can try to defederate from those instances but the only justice that can happen seems only from government/police but that only works in certain countries because more can just pop up bypassing the defederation.
I’m kinda concerned if this issue has no solution because it’s a pretty sharp edge of the double edge sword of having instances anyone can create and host.
Because someone can just host a CP instance and now that instance even if defederated from other instances still provides a safe space for pedophiles to share content and other illegal stuff.
Also what is stopping someone from creating an instance that has a slur for its name and then go around in other federated instances and post comments and make post. Like you don’t want someone named "NAZI_LOVER@n-word.f-slur
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If you don’t mind decades in jail, sure you are welcome to do it.
What’s stopping your own home instance from doing the same?
Because someone can just host a CP instance and now that instance even if defederated from other instances still provides a safe space for pedophiles to share content and other illegal stuff.
If someone it stupid enough to publicly host CP on their own instance then I very much doubt they would be able to hide from the cops. If they are privately hosting illegal content then I don’t think it really matters what software they are using.
Totally unrelated, I heard a couple of South Africans at work mention ‘the k word.’ I was like wtf is this, so I asked them.
The word was kafir. And I was like, ‘you mean like the lime???’
Yeah, apparently kafir is a slur. I’ve only ever heard it used in the context of kafir limes.
As far as limes go, they are kinda average. Hard to squeeze. I’m not a lime expert though.
“Kafir” is an Arabic word meaning “disbeliever” (teacher lie: the reality is a bit more complicated).
“Kaffir” is an Afrikaans pronunciation corruption of the term, first used to describe the pagan African communities, but then applied even to monotheists (who are technically not kafir in Islam), and then, in the end, applicable as a racial slur to all blacks: the Afrikaans equivalent of the n-word.
Not to be confused with the German “Kafer” which means “beetle”.
Thanks for elaborating! I’m learning so much today.
Because someone can just host a CP instance and now that instance even if defederated from other instances still provides a safe space for pedophiles to share content and other illegal stuff.
That is no different than someone just hosting their own webserver for the same purpose. They would find themselves in jail pretty quickly. If they do federate; they would be announcing their own existence. That would not be in their interest if they wanna fly under the radar.
Regarding names, I don’t really know. Maybe instances can have blacklists of allowed names, if they care about it. Perhaps they leave the responsibility of blocking users you don’t like, to you.
I’ve seen the controversy where lemmy.world defederated from 2 piracy instances.
No they didn’t. They blocked 3 communities from 2 different instances. All other communities on those instances are available to .world users and .world is still available to all users on those two instances.
Blocking individual communities is not the same thing as defederating from those instances.
Sorry my bad. Yeah you are correct I did mean 2 communities but I guess it was 3.
This is a weird question for a service hosted on the internet.
Fear of prosecution in most cases I would assume.
I’ve seen the controversy where myisp.com blocked mail from 2 email hosts. So since there is no one big owner what is stopping someone creating an email host that propagates CP or other illegal stuff?
From what it seems like is ISPs can try to block from those hosts but the only justice that can happen seems only from government/police but that only works in certain countries because more can just pop up bypassing the blocks.
I’m kinda concerned if this issue has no solution because it’s a pretty sharp edge of the double edge sword of having instances anyone can create and host.
Because someone can just host a CP mailing list and now that list, even if blocked from other ISPs, still provides a safe space for pedophiles to share content and other illegal stuff.
Also what is stopping someone from creating an email host that has a slur for its name and then go sending email around to other ISPs. Like you don’t want someone named “NAZI_LOVER@n-word.f-slur”
Adjust as appropriate for literally any other technology used on the Internet up to and including frickin’ DNS.
ANY technology, without exception, has utility for evil as well as good. (Some are more evil-leaning, like corporate social media silos, while others are more good-leaning, like automated puppy scritchers, to be fair.) To pearl-clutch over one technology because it’s the new one is just …
… well, human I guess. Humans are always doing this shit.
