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.
“Calling for the death of troops who are actively committing genocide is no better than committing actual genocide. The pen is just as guilty as the sword, and defending against genocide is no better than committing genocide.”
You would’ve made a “Good German.”
See now in my community, that comment would get removed, directed at any user. “Civility”.
It’s a super simple rule… don’t call for anyone to be killed. What is hard to understand about that?
It couldn’t be simpler. I don’t think anyone is questioning how to interpret the rule.
Why didn’t you simply say that this is an instance-wide rule? https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/#1-attacks-on-people-or-groups
Then you wouldn’t have been expected to defend it, and most of this drama brought upon you could have been avoided. Instead it would have been deflected back to the drama about the .world admins’ questionable interpretation & execution of German law regarding calls for violence or Volksverhetzung or whatever it is (IANAGL).