My point isn’t that this link obeys the rules. My point is that the rules are often weird and pointless in a lot of cases including this one. (And also super-strictly enforced against harmless content, except when the mods decide they don’t want them to be, at which point they suddenly are not even against harmful content sometimes.)

Case in point: Literal obvious disinformation on an important topic being posted to !news@lemmy.world. I reported it. Let’s see if they are as strict about their rules when it comes to that content as they are about this thing being banned permanently unless it gets picked up by some 0-editorial-control political click farm “news” site, at which point it suddenly becomes allowed.

(IDK why I am so salty all of a sudden about this today, but I am.)