All from in this thread in !world@lemmy.world 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, @theacharnian@lemmy.ca (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 @DeathToTheIDF@lemmings.world 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.
Youre trying realky hard to avoid answering the question I’m actually answering. Its kind of creepy.
We’re not friends, dude.
We aren’t punishing users for speaking, we’re punishing users for breaking the rules of the community.
Let me be 100% clear here… there is no 1st Amendment freedom of speech on lemmy. That applies only to government action and we are not the government.
You can’t come into lemmy and just say whatever you want, wherever you want. That’s what 4Chan is for. lemmy.world has rules, different communities have rules. Don’t like it? Find a different instance or community.
But if you dont clarify the rules and their actual meanings, you’re a dick for banning people for rules they cannot read in full.
We are never going to sufficiently define every word to the satisfaction of some pedants. If you aren’t aware of the common meaning of a word like “violence” then you have bigger problems, but they aren’t on us to solve.
I think you exclude some things-some weird ones, but not others. I think that needs to be noted, or you are a power tripping bastard.
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