I just think vague gestures to someone’s personal interpretation of what free-speech is, which is generally “I should suffer no consequences for anything I say or do,“ hits a wall when it comes to asking somebody to host conversations and possible links to pirated content on their own servers. Especially when they are doing it on their own dime as a hobby and don’t have a legal team to protect them from the feds.
I mean, let’s be real here. These piracy communities are not just having dialogue and debates. They are enabling. And Admins cannot just trust the community to self police with something like this. The feds do not accept that as an excuse when stuff slips through. No admin wants to spend all their time constantly policing every piracy thread to make sure no one is linking anything.
Yeah I just can’t imagine running an instance. Minimum hundred dollars a month so I can constantly police content just to make sure people aren’t sharing CP or pirated content or otherwise illegal content all on my storage.
Well, that is also where things get tricky. There are no moderators on Kbin or Lemmy. Everyone has full admin privileges or nothing. You give them the ability to mess with your servers as well. 
I just think vague gestures to someone’s personal interpretation of what free-speech is, which is generally “I should suffer no consequences for anything I say or do,“ hits a wall when it comes to asking somebody to host conversations and possible links to pirated content on their own servers. Especially when they are doing it on their own dime as a hobby and don’t have a legal team to protect them from the feds.
I mean, let’s be real here. These piracy communities are not just having dialogue and debates. They are enabling. And Admins cannot just trust the community to self police with something like this. The feds do not accept that as an excuse when stuff slips through. No admin wants to spend all their time constantly policing every piracy thread to make sure no one is linking anything.
Yap it’s really up to the host to decide I think. And also there’s a huge difference between talking about piracy and actively sharing links.
Yeah I just can’t imagine running an instance. Minimum hundred dollars a month so I can constantly police content just to make sure people aren’t sharing CP or pirated content or otherwise illegal content all on my storage.
That’s quite a lot of money. Then you’d have enough users to recruit some moderators.
Well, that is also where things get tricky. There are no moderators on Kbin or Lemmy. Everyone has full admin privileges or nothing. You give them the ability to mess with your servers as well.