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Evidence that lemmy.ml weaponizes rule 1 to censor criticism of russia and china (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by lithiumground@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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The administration of lemmy.ml routinely abuses its rule 1 anti-bigotry policy to conduct political censorship, deleting documented facts regarding the ukraine invasion, holodomor, and xinjiang abuses under false pretexts of imperialist propaganda, misinformation, and nazism while leaving pro-Kremlin talking points untouched.

Verifiable public moderation logs prove this systemic shielding of state propaganda, down to moderators inverting standard geopolitical context, such as noting that fringe extremist units do not make an entire democratic nation fascist, to ban dissenters under the explicit excuse of being a Nazi.

https://lemmy.ml/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=25800386 and https://lemmy.world/modlog/446?page=1&actionType=All&userId=20355358.

The Europe community moderator (https://lemmy.world/u/geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml), who focuses exclusively on criticizing the West and never Russia or China, banned me as a Nazi.

I decided to block the lemmy.ml instance entirely to avoid any further interaction.

I see that there are dozens of relevant posts; you can find the relevant report posts here

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[-] NonconfrontationaI@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 hour ago

Stay salty, libs

[-] Geobloke@aussie.zone 0 points 1 hour ago

Start irrelevant, tankies

[-] NonconfrontationaI@lemmy.ml 0 points 20 minutes ago

Write much?

[-] CptOblivius@lemmy.world 12 points 6 hours ago

It is so blatantly obvious. Worse than the_donald was on reddit. Pure Chinese and Russia propaganda. Overtly negative on anything from the west and won't allow anything negative about Russia, China, etc.

[-] NonconfrontationaI@lemmy.ml 2 points 15 minutes ago

Make sure you vote blue no matter who, lol.

[-] psycholocomotor_no2@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 minutes ago

"Overtly negative on anything from the West" lol.

[-] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

The mods do whatever they want, many break their own posted rules with regularity.

In my experience, in Lemmy they are more apt to delete a comment then ban, so that is nice.

There's no logic to it. I've said "The nation ___________ says this, their motto is ___________ .... (and then repeat their own slogan from their own officials)."

Delete. 100% true, easily verifiable everywhere, public information pertaining to the discussion, deleted.

So, if you're censored or banned, that just means that you're a thinking person with reasonable opinions who bases your conclusions on the factual information available to you.

It's a good thing. Thank God.

If they agree with you, please get help immediately. Time is short.

[-] 13igtyme@startrek.website 6 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I've blocked all .lm instances and even now piefed. The creator or piefed bans anyone who criticizes his dumb ass decisions. Well that's fine, there a reason the entirety of piefed as a software has been decreasing population.

Also there are occasional mods that just love to jerk themselves. The dumb taco truck mod on the Star Trek instance will ban you if you say you don't like new Star Trek, but that dumbass just moderates two mostly dead communities, so it's okay

[-] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I'm just a user here but three days ago I was banned from some community without any explanation. Some moderator accused me of being a rapist because of one comment that they deleted and no one could read. After some comments trying to find out what was happening, I was banned. I didn't see before, but in that community, in the blahaj something instance, they warn something like 'no tankies'. I'm in lemmy.ml, and I guess that makes me a tankie.

These instance wars are bullshit.

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 hours ago

well, lemmy.ml has a significant userbase acting as "tankies", and in turn other instances are overly suspicious of anyone from ml, but I can't blame them for that. the "tankies" they speak about just make new accounts when they find out people started blocking them. It's such a shame that new users mostly end up on ml. the devs are enjoying that they can use it to spread their politics, and make controversy in the fediverse.

[-] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 hours ago

They should defederate. They are treating everyone in ML like shit. And why would I change to an instance that treats people like shit, anyway? Isn't that the problem in the first place? What I do is just strip apart the instance part in usernames and treat everyone as equals, fuck, I must be a commie. BTW, my account is 6 yo, you know, when lemmy.ml was basically the only instance with some certainty around.

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[-] starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Yep I don't immediately assume someone from ml is a tankie, but it's going to make me more wary that even normal stuff they say is just being a mask on tankie.

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[-] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Obviously.

Replicate absolute power among admins and their moderators and expect abuses of power. This is inherent to the design of Reddit, and since Lemmy copied much from Reddit this aspect of its design has been replicated here.

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