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Remember, it's against the TOS to condone violence. So let's all discuss giving billionaires bunnies
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this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2024
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It’s not against the TOS. You can advocate for violence against the poor and minorities all day on here. But advocating for them to defend themselves is apparently over the line.
Notice how hard they’re going after the shooter? The NYPD is actually making an effort for once and the FBI is involved even though there doesn’t seem to be any evidence that this is a federal matter (has the shooter crossed state lines? Has the victim’s civil rights been violated?). We’ve always known that law enforcement is for them and not us but it’s pretty blatant.
I’d say “you get what you pay for“ but the C suite doesn’t pay taxes.
It would be funny if people spammed the tip lines with thousands of fake sightings of the guy.
They're offering a 10k bounty for anyone with good intel. But I'm pretty sure nobody saw anything.
I’ve noticed most communities have been overtaken by, at best, centrist mods. Most of whom have power issues, and ban for personal reasons. Looking at you JonsJava, jeffw.
Huh
I say some wild shit and they just tell me to stop wilding
Except for FlyingSquid, because he doesn't want to admit Israel is using religion as an excuse for genocide for some weird reason.
Oh yeah them too.
just pointing out that this type of censorship goes hand in hand with attempting to defed/disaggregate .world from the more left wing lemmies.
Should I be moving my account to
mlor other, then?If you want the best of both worlds, Midwest has access to both, though I do have to block quite a few .world comms because I can’t stand the users’ ~~irrational hatred of~~ obsession with dunking on leftists (edit: and pearl clutching).
Yikes! I’m a leftie myself and I haven’t been on this platform enough to notice. Definitely moving.
Lemmy.ml is good if you want access to close to everything on the Leftist side of Lemmy. If I were you, though, I would browse the main Leftist instances like Hexbear, Grad, lemmy.ml, etc locally and pick which one has a good local and good all feed.
ml still has access to hexbear/grad and .world so it's my preferred instance just so I don't need to account switch just to browse the different perspectives
Alright sold, thanks
Edit: oops wrong comment.
My canary in the coal mine was seeing world defederate from the biggest piracy community on lemmy. Noped out right there.
I think it’s a lot of the same problem with every social media platform. There’s simply a lot of government agents and private partners that get into positions to moderate and control online speech platforms. It’s how they maintain their power. By controlling what we are allowed to talk about, which never includes speech that’s a threat to their position and power.
Look at how many executives at Facebook are former IDF or CIA. Reddit admins used to have a blogpost up that their highest traffic source came from a government astroturfing farm at Eglin Air Force base. This isn’t a conspiracy. They’re very open about what they’re doing. They have so much control at this point, they no longer feel the need to operate covertly. They spend a great deal of time and money making sure they own the people who moderate the biggest communities, or the admins who can overrule them.
It’s one of the main reasons I made [email protected].
Can i advocate violence against right wing leaders and corporations?
NoOoOoOo never, I would be so upset if you did that.
Cough.
Subscribed.
Do you think that all Lemmy is just your instance? What does “on here” mean in this context to you?
On the internet as a whole. We are allowed to celebrate and glorify violence against the poor and minorities. Not rich white people.
I've been on the Internet for decades and got my first bans after October 2023 trying to fight back against the insane islamaphobia and western chauvinism of the entire world (shitting in China, any Islamic nation, Russia etc when the west is morally as bad if not worse) I'm not even a Muslim, I just have the benefit of seeing the humans behind the religion (for all people of all religions tho not all sects are religions are equal)