Lemmy.ca Support / Questions

516 readers

1 users here now

This community is for support requests specific to lemmy.ca.

If you need to contact an admin privately, please message @[email protected].

If you are a technical user and you have questions or need support with the Lemmy software itself, please visit [email protected].

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Why do you allow misinformation communities like endlesswar? (quokk.au)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

28 comments fedilink hide all child comments

[email protected]

Seems to be purely to post misinformation with repeated claims that Russia is innocent and the US caused the Ukraine situation, that they're stopping Ukraine from agreeing to Russia's super amazing peacedeals, etc.

This is the sort of garbage one would expect to find on ML or Hex, is CA intended to be the same low quality instance?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Deleting a community is worse than Russia invading Ukraine?

Huh good to know.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If we examine the two possible actions: (1) banning the community, and (2) not banning the community. Then we can see that neither (1) nor (2) have influence on Russia invading Ukraine. That has already happened and is happening.

Both actions, (1) and (2), are not worse than the invasion.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Russian propaganda has an impact on it.

Deliberately allowing yourself to be a hub to spread it is ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Russian propaganda has an impact on it.

I totally agree.

Deliberately allowing yourself to be a hub to spread it is ridiculous.

I think this argument is our main point of disagreement. In my opinion, censorship is a bad way to address misinformation. It creates parallel groups of thinking, each, from their point of view, growing more confident that they know all.