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How is content like this banned on .ml for being "political"? (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27423053

[Video] ICE arrests PhD student

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Can you cite where you posted this and what the reason for removal was?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Since when does lemmy.ml ban political content? Is it on a specific community?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They only ban content that criticizes authoritarianism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Yep, it's very much "rules for thee but not for me" at .ml

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Complaining about bans for posts on lemmy.ml is like complaining about birdshit on your car when parking under a tree.

[+] [email protected] -14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I’m not complaining about bans. I’m trying to have a debate on why tankie-land needs to be part of this?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don’t think you quite understand how the Fediverse works.

Lemmy has no control over the instances. It only provides the format and connects the instances with each other. That is the „fed“-part. Federation. A central authority controlling how each instance moderates itself would defeat the point.

If you don’t like an instance, block it and move on. Nobody except the person who runs the server can do anything to change how they run it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Ok, perhaps I don’t. Can you explain what people mean when they call for “defederating from” an instance then?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Because they made this thing and Fediverse is per se open. If you question whether they belong, I wonder why you are posting on .ml?

You didn't post which community you posted that into so it's a but hard to evaluate how legitimate the removal is.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Which community on the .ml instance did you post this on?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

You can block the instance if you don't like it.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

They’re right. I’m not defending the ban, but it is political. This is why MAGA elected Trump.

ICE is following Trump’s orders, which are an unconstitutional violation of the Fifth Amendment. When the Alien Enemies Act was used during WWII, even the Nazis had due process before being deported.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ICE's actions are political.

Discussing ICE's actions is not necessarily political, unless you consider human rights violations to be necessarily political as a topic.

Silencing discussion of human rights violations implies tacit support for the action, so I guess we know now where .ml stands. Any claim of leftist ideology on their part is a sham, they just have a hard-on for authoritarians.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Of course its political, what else would it be? You are talking about peoples rights (a political concept) being breached by an administration (poltical) using an arm of the government (political) as a paramilitary force (political).

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

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[+] [email protected] -10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Fourth Reich is being established under our eyes. What’s the point of social media if a bunch of idiot mods can stop the world from seeing this very essential information?

I would like to have a better definition of what constitutes “political”, what is “humanitarian” then?

Should this be clearly defined per instance?

Like we don’t even have Reddit anymore. All we have is this sputtering slow barely anyone here fresh fragile digital space where we can share some minor resistance, can we at least not have any self sabotage here?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Whats the complaint? Which community did you post this to? If it was posted to a community on lemmy.ml then its fair for them to remove the post, its their instance and they dont care about these posts. If this was reddit you'd have no where else to go. At least with Lemmy you can post to a community on a sane instance.

Lemmy ML dont like the post because they are in favor of the government snatching people off the street without due process.

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