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Apparently there's an issue with some instances banning users for criticizing authoritarian governments. Is lemmy.world a safe place to criticize governments?

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[–] lhx 463 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Well let’s find out: Free Ukraine! Fuck Russia. Fuck China!

[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Mao Zedong is objectively one of the worst people in all of human history, and his influence held China back for decades, and continues to harm it to this day.

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[–] Zerlyna 45 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Are you still with us now?

[–] SuperIce 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think Winnie the Pooh got him.

[–] macarthur_park 23 points 2 years ago
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[–] FlaxPicker 182 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

i mean lemmy.world server is in germany, but the guy who runs it is dutch so probably has a pretty open policy with freedom of speech i would imagine. And i mean real freedom of speech not the dog whistle for being a dick/racist/phobe

[–] phillycodehound 80 points 2 years ago (11 children)

As one of the Admins of Lemmy.World we're pretty open but if you're a dick and unnecessarily a troll we'll kick ya.

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[–] Andonome 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I still feel like I need a new term for this. Yet another word co-opted by idiots.

[–] gabowo 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Freedom of speech with consequences?

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[–] SPOOSER 118 points 2 years ago (1 children)

All governments should be able to be criticized if we're going to be honest about having genuinely open discussions.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Seeing as having the ability to criticize gov'ts is a fundamental part of democracy I fail to see why any social media site would think banning it should be best-practice.

That said I do take issue with some posters who seem to rant on a specific target without any sort of evidentiary data. The slide into "I don't need proof to back my opinion" is a prolific and dangerous thing these days.

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[–] Andonome 95 points 2 years ago (10 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

they will ban my account and still come to my instance to read about the AI research.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 years ago

Fuck the CCP.

[–] sunspider 40 points 2 years ago

Hey there. This instance currently follows the code of conduct and rules for mastodon.world: https://mastodon.world/about

Discussion and civil criticism of these subjects is allowed, but name calling, ad hominem attacks, and other uncivil behaviour breaks the rules.

Also remember that specific communities here may have additional rules.

It looks like we can't pin comments yet, so apologies if this reply gets buried. For now I'm going to lock this post, as the discussion has degraded and is full of rule-breaking.

[–] N00dle 37 points 2 years ago
[–] Mpeach45 26 points 2 years ago (11 children)
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[–] bostondrivingisworse 22 points 2 years ago

Haven’t had any problems so far! Taiwan numbah one! Fuck Putin!

[–] STRIKINGdebate2 20 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Lemmy.World and Lemmy. Ml are two different places. Lemmy ML was created as a safehaven for people from subreddits that were banned like ChapoTrapHouse. Lemmy. World is designed to be the general Lemmy Community. Lemmy. Ml was the biggest until the reddit issues but I am pretty sure Lemmy World is after overtaking them. Lemmy.ML is trying to steer traffic here because they know that their community wasn't going to be palatable to the vast majority of people. There's a wide variety here so it's very hard to pinpoint where this place's userbase stands politically.

Lemmy. ML and Lemmy.world are different places and it's for the best if we just leave each be and have our own communities in peace.

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[–] TeaHands 16 points 2 years ago

If you check out the instance sidebar, we're basically running on the same rules as mastodon.world (presumably until such time as we need something more Lemmy-specific)

https://mastodon.world/about

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