When a government blocks a website in a country, they do so by registering the website's name on a list of websites held by the internet providers. They can do this to any website federated with a certain website they want blocked until they're all blocked. They have blocked email providers before, if you want a rough model of how this would work.
CraigOhMyEggoAlt
joined 4 months ago
I haven't used their platform for the very reason that I wouldn't follow their rule.
There is no “fediverse” to shut down.
Unless you're the government. The government has power over the internet providers.
I counted way more than two communities. That's often said to mean it's an instance ban.
In case people missed it (I will assume good faith here), “anti-AI troll” is another way of saying “this person is concerned about copyright”.
That's indeed what he said.
People would think that not remembering that copyright is more than just about the distribution.
The fact there are a few entries that have both "anti-AI troll" and "copyright apologia" as motives suggests the person was engaging in both.
Whole services have shut down because they don't support copyright. YouTube's very first legal battle had to do with copyright. Discord shuts down several servers a day because those servers violate copyright. Scientology exists solely because of the power of copyright law. Copyright enforcement is quite big.
Technically neither of them do. Blahaj has had a neopronoun problem since day 1. They'll also take sides between transphobes instead of condemning both their transphobia. That's sneaky shit.
And you don't think Trump would apply a stunt like that to the fediverse? He currently has a program where the government vets immigrants for their social media posts when they sign up for American citizenship. I would dare pray someone moving to America who has a Lemmy profile doesn't get found out as a lemming.
My surprise lies in the fact there's a difference between being anti-copyright and banning people for being pro-copyright.
What subreddit has this happened in? I've used Reddit daily for a decade and only experienced this once.
Sometimes those rules reflect a personal choice. Sometimes they reflect ethics. And sometimes they are protecting themselves from the law.
Almost every instance has defederated from Burggit because its terms of service mention they will turn a blind eye to pedo content. Pedo content, quite obviously, is highly illegal (at least in the majority of first world nations), which shouldn't have to be mentioned to people. Nobody is applying that logic to Burggit.