All from in this thread in [email protected] about a chant at a British music festival where an artist said “death, death to the IDF”.

After other users were quoting that chant in the comments and had comments removed and banned, the hero of our story, @[email protected] (appearing as “acargitz”) pointed out that under international law, fighting an occupying force is legitimate. But apparently not under world news rules, as their removed comments and the many explanations from mods make clear in the thread.

Equally against the rules is the call for the eradication of an organisation or business, even without an explicit call to violence against individual members of the business.

In the same thread: user @[email protected] had comments removed for being anti-American “(again)”, though I couldn’t see the first time. It’s not even clear to me how the removed comments were anti-American.

Bonus points for the “DC Comics” removal reason. Though this seems to be incompetence, rather than malice.

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    You were compelled?

    Caring isn’t entirely bad. Just know that lemmy in general is not, it seems, a place where you are loved at present.

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              When your feelings are “I don’t care about your rules” then, yes, fuck your feelings. It’s not my job to pat your hand and go “Awww, it will be OK.”

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                  Yeah, getting a lot of replies in this thread. Hard to keep them all straight when my inbox says (21).

                  But yeah, as for why I’m participating here… That’s a longer story.

                  I was on reddit 15 years before it imploded and the #1 thing that chapped my ass were moderators who would do shit with no explanation.

                  Thread locked. Thread removed. Users banned. They literally felt (feel?) that they didn’t owe anyone an explanation. I resolved to do better, and the way I go about it is with transparency. I LOVE that lemmy moderation logs are public.

                  If I remove a post or a comment, you will be damn sure you know why I removed it. When a user gets banned, it should be clear to all involved why it happened.

                  PTB, for the most part, are the whiny little bitches who cannot stand that someone else dared to tell them “No.”

                  There are legitimate abuses of power, look at, well, almost anything .ml gets away with. If they were anyone other than the founding lemmy instance, they would have been defederated AGES ago.

                  But they still host valuable communities, so nobody wants to treat them the way we treated hexbear. I get it.

                  The DOWNSIDE is that by being more public facing than other mods, that makes me a target for harrassment.

                  Did you know, I have a personal troll who creates accounts specifically to attack me? They are hilariously bad at it and get instance banned within minutes, and they never seem to learn from their mistakes. Someday they’ll discover sex or something and will stop… someday.

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                    I resolved to do better, and the way I go about it is with transparency.

                    A laudable goal. But one you are so clearly not actually attempting to live up to. If you were, you might have realised all the people telling you that you’re being a lower tripping hastard have a point.

                    You can’t ban a person for saying “get rid of genocidal institutions” and then claim it was a Just act on the basis of a no violence policy.

                    If you were a good mod, you’d say “mea culpa. I made a mistake. Let me reverse it and unban the user.” But you’re not a good mod, you’re a power tripping bastard who has doubled down every single time you get called out—except for all the times you’ve chosen to try to deflect the conversation into irrelevancy.

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                    Okay. So, last thing first, you know some people are asexual, right?

                    While it’s not common, it is entirely possible your troll will not discover sex, or will discover then dismiss it.

                    no explanation

                    But your inability to acknowledge the violence you do endorse and allow in communities you moderate, while still banning even the faintest whiff of any other violence is kind of exactly like that

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                  I mean, it’s right there in the sidebar:

                  For !world it’s Rule 6:

                  “Rule 6: Memes, spam, other low effort posting, reposts, misinformation, advocating violence, off-topic, trolling, offensive, regarding the moderators or meta in content may be removed at any time.”

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                    But your view on laws makes ‘no advocating violence’ really messy.

                    So what counts? Who and how is it okay to advocate viooence?

                    So some violence is clearly allowed.

                    Also, ‘no regarding the mods’. You’re unhinged.

                    Edit: ‘no advocating violence’ is an extremely radical position, and i think there’s violemce youre choosing to not see. Make it more explicit.