I was recently thinking about how amazing it is that with this decentralized community we would have no censorship from big corporations and then I asked myself: what about illegal content? The kind of content that really should not be shared? As an example, what if someone creates a Lemmy instance and starts creating a community around CP? Or human trafficking? How do we deal with it? I know that instances can choose with whom they can access the content, so if most popular instances blacklist that “illegal” instance its content wouldn’t be easily visible, but it would still be in the Fediverse. Also, will all popular instances have to be quick to blacklist these “illegal” instances? Isn’t that a little to difficult? If we go the other way, where they create a whitelist, wouldn’t that harm small legit instances? Is there a plan to fight off illegal content?
Legality also totally subjective, it’s a big gray area for sure
Yeah, I totally understand that. As a personal example: I’m against its civil usage of firearms, if someone is using the Fediverse to sell them, who am I to say that that is illegal? It might be illegal where I live, but maybe it is legal where they live, we can’t really be judges on these kind of topics. I used the term “illegal” because I couldn’t find a better term to describe those kind of subjects that (hopefully) 99.99% of people would totally NOT be okay with it showing up on their homepage, like the two examples I provided. What is the plan for that?
Would they be willing to sell them to you, though? I keep getting local drug dealers trying to interact with me on Instagram. I don’t see how it would be worse on the Fediverse. Even some reddit subs have drug dealers advertising
I think the morality of legality is subjective, but isn’t legality itself objective?
If law makers, judges, lawyers, and law enforcement officials were all perfect? Yes, it would be. That is not a world we live in, though.
I don’t think so, because otherwise judges would never have difficulties judging some known behaviour.