The coloring isn’t the same in the link though.

Except when more than just culture is at stake.

The ban itself is not the legal issue, it’s just an extension of it.

Trust me when I say that, ever since Trump got elected, the insane has very much become possible.

That’s not the same person. Notice how the order of the community bans don’t match up. Joey just wanted to sound like a hero again.

I guess it could functionally be an instance ban if literally every single comm moderator got together and banned a user from every single comm on an instance…

It’s more like a federation glitch. The modlogs don’t always represent a situation correctly. Hence what you said after that. On my end, it appears as multiple communities. So I stand corrected.

They’re still going to try. Russia already has, and they’re the home of Marxism-Leninism.

The artist doesn’t need to be an artist-for-profit for it to apply. They just need to be someone who can say they spent all day on an art piece. The incentive for that goes away when it amounts to something that other people can enjoy without any boundaries.

It’s there in the fine print.

When a government blocks a website in a country, they do so by registering the website’s name on a list of websites held by the internet providers. They can do this to any website federated with a certain website they want blocked until they’re all blocked. They have blocked email providers before, if you want a rough model of how this would work.

I haven’t used their platform for the very reason that I wouldn’t follow their rule.

There is no “fediverse” to shut down.

Unless you’re the government. The government has power over the internet providers.

I counted way more than two communities. That’s often said to mean it’s an instance ban.

In case people missed it (I will assume good faith here), “anti-AI troll” is another way of saying “this person is concerned about copyright”.

People would think that not remembering that copyright is more than just about the distribution.

The fact there are a few entries that have both “anti-AI troll” and “copyright apologia” as motives suggests the person was engaging in both.

Whole services have shut down because they don’t support copyright. YouTube’s very first legal battle had to do with copyright. Discord shuts down several servers a day because those servers violate copyright. Scientology exists solely because of the power of copyright law. Copyright enforcement is quite big.

What subreddit has this happened in? I’ve used Reddit daily for a decade and only experienced this once.

Copyright is more than just about the distribution. Copyright laws…

1. Encourage credit to be given, when people often otherwise not give credit
2. Prevent people from making money from something that is given away for free
3. Prevent people from making fake versions of a book, like what happened to the fifth Harry Potter book
4. Through all of this maintain incentive for artists to make art

I counted way more than two communities.

In case people missed it (I will assume good faith here), “anti-AI troll” is another way of saying “this person is concerned about copyright”.

I counted a dozen communities where this happened. Typically, when someone is banned from multiple communities for the same reason simultaneously, an admin is involved and that it might be an instance ban in disguise. Is this wrong?

I counted a dozen communities where this happened. Typically, when someone is banned from multiple communities for the same reason simultaneously, an admin is involved and that it might be an instance ban in disguise. Is this wrong?