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Please fix Rule 1. (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

A shroom community was removed from lemmy.world as it was considered "illegal" content by the admins. The logic behind this is boggling, to say the least.

Marijuana is considered an illegal substance in some states in the US and is still federally illegal. /c/trees should be banned, correct?

Clown pictures of Putin are absolutely considered illegal in Russia, so that should require and immediate ban.

Freedom of speech can also be considered illegal in some places.

Incest is considered illegal so that should automatically trigger a ban on all incest porn, real or not. Hell, porn is universally taboo, so that shouldn't have any place on this instance, I guess.

You see where I am going with this? Rule 1 is a catch-all and needs clarification. Simply saying something is illegal is not quite enough. Owning and sharing pictures of shrooms is not illegal. Trading spores or mycelium is generally not illegal either.

This is not about me being salty (which I am) about the community being removed and forced to relocate. It's the odd bias that was applied to justify its removal.

Please note that I said fix Rule 1, not remove it. There are some really bad things on the internet that shouldn't use lemmy as a safe haven.

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[-] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

The admins were using the legal staus of shrooms in other countries (besides their own) as a justification for removing the community. Ok, cool. Now apply that reasoning fairly across other communities.

Clarifying a point is not hard and they do get very specific with other rules as well, if you haven't read them. They could easily say that drug trade on lemmy.world is forbidden. Easy.

Also, chill with the ad hominem arguments. Trying to use insults to prove yourself correct just makes you look like the jackass.

Again, I don't think you understand the full scope of the points I am making. I understand your points, but they are just bad ones.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Literally there are admins from multiple countries.

You don't know what country the service is hosted in.

The admins made a decision, precisely because they felt this was a risk to them.

Don't like it, then spin up your own instance, host whatever content you like and get a good lawyer.

As I pointed out in my original post. Everyone in this thread is a free speech absolutist, but let's see how that conviction holds against a lawsuit.

this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2023
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