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Anyone else banned from world news for criticizing China? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I made a comment on worldnews criticizing Chinese activity in the south china sea and apparently got banned for it by the automod. This happen to anyone else? Is this Lemmy's version of the need help post and the shape of things to come?

The instance I posted in was Lemmy.ml

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Based on what china is doing to fishing and military boats from the Philippines, I doubt they're just after 'transit'. They're making a territorial claim. Not much different from Russia's claim on Ukraine, except that its happening in international waters.

This is what OP was banned for. It’s not just the world news community, the admins police wrongthink across the entire instance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I wonder what the listed offence was, because what OP stated in the comment is absolutely true. Did they conveniently forget the 9-dash line? China is absolutely laying claim to waters that have already been declared to belong to the Philippines.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

OP said the offense was “yellow peril”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

What a BS reason

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Yeah that's pretty bad.