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Please fix Rule 1. (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by remotelove@lemmy.world to c/support@lemmy.world

A shroom community was removed from lemmy.world as it was considered "illegal" content by the admins. The logic behind this is boggling, to say the least.

Marijuana is considered an illegal substance in some states in the US and is still federally illegal. /c/trees should be banned, correct?

Clown pictures of Putin are absolutely considered illegal in Russia, so that should require and immediate ban.

Freedom of speech can also be considered illegal in some places.

Incest is considered illegal so that should automatically trigger a ban on all incest porn, real or not. Hell, porn is universally taboo, so that shouldn't have any place on this instance, I guess.

You see where I am going with this? Rule 1 is a catch-all and needs clarification. Simply saying something is illegal is not quite enough. Owning and sharing pictures of shrooms is not illegal. Trading spores or mycelium is generally not illegal either.

This is not about me being salty (which I am) about the community being removed and forced to relocate. It's the odd bias that was applied to justify its removal.

Please note that I said fix Rule 1, not remove it. There are some really bad things on the internet that shouldn't use lemmy as a safe haven.

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[-] pozbo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Which jurisdiction is lemmy.world in?

[-] Desistance@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

To be fair, cannabis is legal in a lot of states now despite the slowness of the federal government. Especially medical cannibis. Psilocybin is only legal in two states. It's gonna take a while to catch up.

[-] davepleasebehave@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

it's al.illegal in the UK. so maybe it should be banned?

[-] x4740N@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] Rearsays@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago

In this thread there is a whole bunch of chest beating of individuals who don’t really understand what this is yet.

[-] TheLurker@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

Everyone is a big shit talker about "freedom of speech" right up to the point they get the cease and desist letter from some corporation or a visit from the police for facilitating illegal activities.

Rule 1 exists exactly for the purpose of it being a catch-all.

Go run your own instance and let's see how stoic you are when the lawsuits start rolling in.

[-] Rearsays@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, the fact of the matter is that freedom of speech is really not an actual thing that actually exists. You’re always unfortunately going to have to hide the bad stuff from the regulators because of their laws in the end all it really does is hides the bad stuff. It doesn’t actually stop the bad stuff.

[-] FishyCunt99483@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago

While the rules might vary the law is very clear here. Shrooms are a regulated substance and that community is hosted on a site which chooses not to engage in illegal activity, so naturally they are going to want to remove it.

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