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Unremoval of Piracy Communities @ lemmy.world (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6018317

Hello World!

As we've all known and talked about quite a lot, we previously blocked several piracy-focused communities. These communities, as announced, were:

In our removal announcement, we stated that we will continue to look into this more in detail, and re-allow these communities if and when we deem it safe. It was a solid concern at the time, because we were already receiving takedown requests as well as constant attacks, and didn't want to put our volunteer team at risk. We had zero measures in place, and the tools we had were insufficient to deal with anything at scale.

Well, after back and forth with some very cool people, and starting to have proper measures as well as tooling to protect ourselves, we decided it's time to welcome these communities back again. Long live the IT nerds!

We know it's been a rough ride with everything, and we'd like to thank every one of you who were understanding of us, and stayed with us all the way. Please know that as users, you are what makes this platform what it is, and damned we be if we ever forget it.

With love, and as always, stay safe in the high seas!

Lemmy.world Team

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[–] hottari@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to have an account on that woke instance. Left the dumpster fire for lemmy.ml. Not going to entertain obvious censorship on Lemmy.

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

if you think a cesspit like .world is "woke" what the hell are you?

[–] hottari@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just a free-minded individual with strong views about freedom of speech & censorship.

[–] raven@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No anti-"woke" voices are even remotely approaching getting "censored" or "silenced". If they are then why do I have to hear about them every fucking day?

On the contrary, if you want to hear from a good portion of the population about issues that affect them you need some aggressively anti-racist anti-sexist anti-queerphobic etc spaces or you won't likely get the chance. Isn't hearing what real marginalized people have to say about their own experiences a million times more important than some vague worry about crypto-fash#56637 getting to say their piece which has already been heard and generally decided to be socially harmful and, importantly, silencing to the people their racist, ___-phobic etc speech implies violence to? A chilling effect as you freeze-peach enthusiasts call it.

Isn't freedom of speech more about an individual having the right to hear from many viewpoints, than it is about an individual having the right to say anything and everything, anywhere, any time, they so desire?