Comment on How is content like this banned on .ml for being "political"?
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
They’re right. I’m not defending the ban, but it is political by definition.
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.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
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.
Womble@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
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 atm of the government (political) as a paramilitary force (political).
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
My point of view is that a human rights violation is a human rights violation regardless of the context in which it happens, and is therefore an important thing to discuss and give visibility to.
Labeling it as “political” and using that as an excuse to hide discussion of it feels like bootlicker behavior to me.
Womble@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Obviously its important, but pretending its not political doesnt make any sense. If a community doesnt want to discuss politics (and as far as I’ve seen the OP didnt say which community this was in) then its a reasonable post to remove.