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DBZer0 has begun banning people simply for believing in the concept of copyright (archive.ph)

submitted 3 days ago by CraigOhMyEggoAlt@lemmy.wtf to c/fediverselore@lemmy.ca

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Advocating piracy is one thing, but now banning people for believing in copyright? That's like banning people for following the law. That is banning people for following the law. What gives? And to think a while ago I declared I wouldn't have any reason to not take their bans (or the motives behind them) seriously.

Are we trying to get world governments to ban Lemmy (or, worse, the fediverse)? Love the administrative decisions or hate them, such decisions will drag down the whole fediverse. Typically sites are defederated to protect the sites defederating them from liability. Will this be an example, or does this, out of convenience, not apply? Are we forgetting a large portion of the fediverse's demographics consist of artists trying to make a damn living?

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

This doesn't look like it has anything to do with what you are claiming, being banned for 'believing in copyright'.

It looks like people going to comms specifically set up to share AI generated images, and banning people for bitching about how AI image gen involves disrespect of copyright.

I am no fan of AI gen imagery in about 99.9% of scenarios you'll actually encounter it or hear about it in.

... So I just blocked these communities that are all about that, because they do not interest me, and do not interact with them.

... You can also see that these are comm specific bans, not instance wide bans, as say .world did initially, and then rolled back when people were cheering the UHC CEO getting assasinated.

Looking into a few of these users that have been recently banned, from the modlogs on dbzero... it seems like these users have been getting various comments deleted, with mod explanations why, for days or weeks now, and whoever is modding these StableDiffusion comms just decided to ban them.

Here's the actual dbzero modlogs:

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/modlog

... Also as far as you being a worry wort about 'all of lemmy being banned'... pretty sure that's not possible, the whole point of a federated structure like lemmy is that different instances both host and police themselves.

Could a single instance get taken out? Sure. ... All of them? Seems unlikely without a massive coordinated effort, and afaik, db0 (the instance creator) is pretty tech savvy and has a reasonably secure hosting setup.

Disclaimer: I am neither a dbzero admin nor mod, just a member of the instance.