Hi everyone, I saw a conversation on a certain magazine about the wording of kbin.run’s terms of service. I’m not going to reply there because its unproductive and irrelevant to the conversation being discussed. I do; however, encourage everyone to (re)review the privacy policy and terms of service of the instance.

A reminder that this is a US based instance and I will enforce compliance with all established US laws and comply with all law enforcement requests, subpoenas, etc. I am not a lawyer and I’m not going to pay a lawyer to write an all encompassing fediverse friendly TOS, although if that’s something people want, please donate to the site so I can afford to hire one. I’d like to think this is one of the most transparency friendly instances out there between all the information I provide in the about, FAQ, privacy policy, terms of service, etc.

With regards to the specific concern about the “third party” wording in Section 11. of the terms of service… outside of the realization that any federated instance subscribed to any user or magazine on this site is by definition a third party… there are also automated measures in place to log and report users that post or share material flagged as child sexual abuse material (CSAM) detected with hashes provided by the NCMEC. This is a ZERO tolerance area and I have already reported several instances that either don’t care about this or have no moderation in place to handle it.

Thank you for your understanding and I welcome a healthy discussion if desired; otherwise, please submit a user account delete request and I will remove your account from the site.