Apparently there’s an issue with some instances banning users for criticizing authoritarian governments. Is lemmy.world a safe place to criticize governments?

  • GarbageShootAlt
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    1 year ago

    It’s already too late for that. Without assessing why it happened on Reddit and how it should be stopped, there is no reason to believe it would not be reproduced here. It was not assessed, let alone stopped, and thereby has been reproduced.

    • grundelgrump@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I was always under the assumption it was some weird alt right thing where they just pretend criticism of China gets censored.

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        1 year ago

        It’s funny how anticommunists and rightists seem to overlap so much, even when the anticommunist claims to be progressive.

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      1 year ago

      I mean what was lemmy supposed to do? It already removed karma. People just like approval and attention

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        1 year ago

        I mean this more on an instance moderation level. It’s not just “monke brain neuron activation”, it is a culture of ignorant chauvinism and low-effort engagement-farming

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            1 year ago

            There is valid criticism to be made of entities that are also geopolitical enemies of the US, but repeating the State Department line is a serious red flag, as is whatever you call those zero effort “social credit -20 billion” memes.