My removed comment, in its entirety, was:
I don’t support Hamas. They killed all those people; fuck them. I also don’t support the current Israeli government, because they occupy, kill, torture, rape, and systematically dehumanize 5 million people, most of whom didn’t do anything wrong and just want to live. So, fuck the Israeli government too. I was just making a point about how forbidding the flags doesn’t have much to do with solving anything about that situation.
The reason given for removal was rule 1:
No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
Link to the thread. They also removed my interlocutor’s comment, which while unproductive was genuinely harmless, more so even than mine.
So we’re not allowed to criticize the Israeli government on lemmy.ml? (Or wherever was the mod that removed this)
For real?
I realize that whining about removed posts is probably not productive. It is life. 🥲 However, this type of stuff happened frequently on Reddit and helped to convince me it was fundamentally a cheeseball platform. Just recently I was actually arguing with some people and pointing out that I’d never had my stuff removed on Lemmy even though I have some viewpoints that are way more unpopular than “Israel shouldn’t kill civilians.”
And now, the Reddit mod philosophy has arrived here.
spaduf@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
This is not an appropriate community to post this.
mo_ztt@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I disagree. Issues of where to draw the line as to what represents “free speech and debate” and what represents “toxic behavior” and how to deal with the latter without squashing the former are pretty central to the fediverse fulfilling its potential, and concrete examples of how it’s playing out in practice are part of that conversation. In my opinion.
There’s a certain portion of it that honestly is just sour grapes on my part, yeah, which isn’t ideal for this forum. I can admit that. But the issue at the heart of it is also an important issue to discuss if this is to be a worthwhile platform. In my opinion.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 months ago
I don’t see how it relates at all. The mod made a decision for their server and followed it through. That seems pretty fediverse to me. What would also be purely fediverse is if you created your own server then you could post whatever you wanted.
CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 10 months ago
You just said
and are complaining when one of your comments get removed. From your post it doesn’t seem like a trend of the fediverse
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Is there a community for criticisms of moderation? I’d subscribe to that
federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I posted in a meta community
lemmy.world/post/8226045