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Legal Liabilities (lemmy.ml)
submitted 8 months ago by dameoutlaw@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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If you are an admin and or instance operator are you protecting yourself legally? A great deal of people have simply spun up instances and treat them like Discord servers and subreddits, but Discord and Reddit are the ones that assume legal liability. Here are some good reads to assist by lawyers and experts that are on the fedi

https://denise.dreamwidth.org/91757.html

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer

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[–] dameoutlaw@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

That’s your opinion but both reports are by lawyers and orgs that have a presence on the fediverse be it accounts and or hosting their own instances. I’m sure they’re aware of what they’re talking about.