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[–] Goldenderp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That legal/illegal thing is going to be tricky to figure out. What's illegal exactly in a global federated social network? Whose law applies?

[–] neblem@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The instance's hosting country's law applies to the instance and the communities it hosts.

[–] Goldenderp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Displaying illegal content from the fediverse is fine?

[–] neblem@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Its a bit complicated. EFF has a good post from a US perspective https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer . My understanding for US instances (and IANAL), is that if you have a TOS banning illegal content, register for a DMCA agent, and remove illegal content in a reasonably fast timeframe when you have knowledge of it, and ban repeat offenders, you should be okay.