

The court filing is linked in the first paragraph and worth a read. The article is a bit vague because the claims in the filing are pretty sweeping, but to list some highlights:
- Brave started selling copyrighted scraped articles in bulk from their search index to AI companies
- Brave built explicit and targeted functionality into their browser to circumvent newspaper paywalls
- Brave repeats long, verbatim sections of NYT & other papers’ material on request through their AI web search feature
I’m neither an attorney nor a huge fan of IP rights writ large, but in my reading, the newspapers are making a pretty strong case that Brave is consciously stealing and reselling copyrighted material in unaltered form for monetary gain.





I was active on there for a few years.
The mods are uber-censorious, in short. There were also a few power users who liked to brigade anything they disagree with.
Lemmy isn’t infallible or immune to such behavior by any means — but the public modlog, option to instance hop, and federated-community nature make it feel far more open and transparent. Tildes is much more of a walled garden, for better or (IMO) worse.