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

    I will believe you, but usually people don’t simply “misremember” seeing footage of someone being crushed to death, so I hope you can see why my initial conclusion was what it was.

    As I said in my other comment, some photos are of soldiers who were killed and I’ve seen Reddit misattribute or misrepresent photos and videos before when it comes to atrocity propaganda against socialist states. That said, I haven’t seen what pictures Reddit uses for evidence, so I can’t tell you about the other cases (and would need to research it anyway if I was given a picture, counterfactually speaking).

    A number of people did die, including innocent protestors caught in the crossfire, though it would perhaps be more accurate to say they were driven into the crossfire by student leaders like Chai Ling who were deliberately seeking to cause her own followers to shed blood for the media benefit, by her own admission!

    The first link on my comment on my alt here is footage of interviews with some student leaders. You probably want to avoid the last link because it has some gruesome pictures (I marked it with a warning) but none of the others have images like that.