You’re on .world, an American hosted instance. As long as you remove what is actively requested by the government in a reasonable amount of time you cannot be legally held liable for any content hosted. This includes piracy or CSAM.
If no one reports the content and d you are not made aware of it, you cannot be held liable. We’ve been through this, meta and Twitter did all the hard work hashing this out in court against the riaa. Why reject their hard work instead of using the same rules that protect them?
Not in the US, where .world is held. Maybe the Finnish instances since their laws are weird, but in most countries there’s a variant of platform immunity wherein the owners are only liable if they are informed by the government about offending content and fail to take action.
Exceedingly few countries require proactive moderation, and pretty much all countries that do have a minimum user count for that moderation above the gross user count of the entire fediverse.
No, no they’re not.
Yes. We are.
You’re on .world, an American hosted instance. As long as you remove what is actively requested by the government in a reasonable amount of time you cannot be legally held liable for any content hosted. This includes piracy or CSAM.
If no one reports the content and d you are not made aware of it, you cannot be held liable. We’ve been through this, meta and Twitter did all the hard work hashing this out in court against the riaa. Why reject their hard work instead of using the same rules that protect them?
The ToS would like to disagree with you.
Specifically:
The website and the agreement will be governed by and construed per the laws of the following countries and/or states:
Yes, they are. If they are hosting servers where people engage in criminal actions they can be held liable in some nations.
Not in the US, where .world is held. Maybe the Finnish instances since their laws are weird, but in most countries there’s a variant of platform immunity wherein the owners are only liable if they are informed by the government about offending content and fail to take action.
Exceedingly few countries require proactive moderation, and pretty much all countries that do have a minimum user count for that moderation above the gross user count of the entire fediverse.
The ToS would like to disagree with you.