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    14 days ago

    Sure. The problem is we’re too decentralized to make enforcement practical. They can try to come for, say, lemmy.world if they want, that’s totally fine. That won’t get them very far with all of Lemmy though. Too many servers can be housed in places where western law cannot easily reach, and regulating just those servers located in western countries accomplishes very little.

    Advantages of being structured differently.

    edit for grammar

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      The pirate bay, many big private trackers, and Anna’s archive are still up despite being felony copyright infringement and directly pissing off fortune 500 companies