WtfEvenIsExistence1️@lemmy.ca to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoThanks to the people taking such risk for us.lemmy.caimagemessage-square131fedilinkarrow-up11.05Karrow-down131file-text
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minus-squareOskarAxolotl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up47·edit-21 year agoIt is with great sorrow that I inform you that not everyone in the world is from the USA.
minus-squarelntl@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down35·1 year agowiseguy, eh? You know what I’m talking about and if you call the law something else in your region, good for you: you’re unique. The law is the same: content hosts are not liable for illegal content if they don’t know about it.
minus-squarewanderingmagus@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up25·1 year agoNot every country has a law which protects you like that, and some have the exact opposite law that actively goes after you for it instead.
minus-squareNatanael@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-21 year agoYou may be thinking about DMCA in US law which have the “don’t know about it” provision. You’re still not protected from other federal laws unless those too have a similar provision
minus-squareNatanael@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·1 year agoDoesn’t preempt federal law, only state law
Never heard of Section 230?
It is with great sorrow that I inform you that not everyone in the world is from the USA.
wiseguy, eh? You know what I’m talking about and if you call the law something else in your region, good for you: you’re unique.
The law is the same: content hosts are not liable for illegal content if they don’t know about it.
Not every country has a law which protects you like that, and some have the exact opposite law that actively goes after you for it instead.
You may be thinking about DMCA in US law which have the “don’t know about it” provision. You’re still not protected from other federal laws unless those too have a similar provision
Doesn’t preempt federal law, only state law