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[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I'm glad there is enough critical mass to move past those fucking hatemongers. "Pure free speech and anarchy!" If you say exactly what we want you to, also don't accidentally offend us with normal fucking words

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Free speech!"

Ok tankie.

"Not like that!"

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Or more subtly:

I can't even say life's a bitch over there without being filtered because of misogyny which I guess? But that's not my intent and I don't think the majority read it with that connotation. What if I just want to quote a Nas classic?

It gets dumber: last I checked their word filter doesn't pay any regard to a comment's set language so even If I set my comment to French "retard" will be filtered on ml communities and to their users regardless of where I comment.

Je suis en retard
Becomes
Je suis en removed

Edit: actually, let's see if this has been fixed, test French comment in reply to this:

Edit2: lmao

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

I've tried to talk about fire retardants there once... It gets cut too.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Je suis en retard

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They're not anarchists tho. Don't associate anarchism with .ml bullshit

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was in an argument with some .ml tankie yesterday, and they had the gall to say that "free speech that doesn't threaten the government is tolerated everywhere," in response to a comment saying that the CCP censors speech. They didn't like my assertion that that statement also applies to Nineteen Eighty-Four's Ingsoc party. It's technically true, that free speech that doesn't threaten the government is tolerated in Oceania. It's just that the government considers any dissent threatening.

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

My last straw was when I made a meme on their meme instance that had no Asians, anyone related to Asia, or racism in it. And they removed the post with 500+ up votes and a healthy discussion, because my title was "Rice."

They literally told me rice, the word by itself, is racist. I just chose a random word for the title to fill the blank.