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Anyone else banned from world news for criticizing China? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by ChowJeeBai@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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So I made a comment on worldnews criticizing Chinese activity in the south china sea and apparently got banned for it by the automod. This happen to anyone else? Is this Lemmy's version of the need help post and the shape of things to come?

The instance I posted in was Lemmy.ml

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[-] AlexisFR@jlai.lu 17 points 8 months ago

It's a bit extreme to block the entirety of Lemmy.ml, no?

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 52 points 8 months ago

Based on what china is doing to fishing and military boats from the Philippines, I doubt they're just after 'transit'. They're making a territorial claim. Not much different from Russia's claim on Ukraine, except that its happening in international waters.

This is what OP was banned for. It’s not just the world news community, the admins police wrongthink across the entire instance.

[-] AlexisFR@jlai.lu 6 points 8 months ago

Yeah that's pretty bad.

[-] cottonmon@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I wonder what the listed offence was, because what OP stated in the comment is absolutely true. Did they conveniently forget the 9-dash line? China is absolutely laying claim to waters that have already been declared to belong to the Philippines.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

OP said the offense was “yellow peril”

[-] cottonmon@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

What a BS reason

[-] mashbooq@infosec.pub 37 points 8 months ago

to join lemmy.ml you need to copy and paste a paragraph from a communist text, so, no

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

? Since when. I used to have an account there months ago when I migrated from reddit. I don't think I would have missed that at the time

[-] ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago

Yeah I had an account there too and I set it up like every other account. Found out later on that ml was Marxist Lennin so I setup shop at lemm.ee instead

[-] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

.ml is the top level domain for the country of Mali. .ml domains are free, so it is just a coincidence. Also, Marxist-Leninism is not a 'tankie' theory, by itself. There are plenty of communists and socialists that aren't simps for China and Russia.

I would even say that you can't be a true communist and support either of these countries, because these countries are not communist at all. They are just authoritarian capitalistic hellholes, with sprinkles of social policies to give the illusion of pursuing a communist society.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Dessalines, lemmy dev and admin of both lemmygrad and lemmy.ml, is a Dengist. And not exactly coy about it.

And don't even fucking start to pretend it's "lemmygrad dot mali".

[-] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 months ago

Fuck I'm retarded.

I've been here for months and kind of known all these components but just never connected the dots.

I was even defending Lemmy at one point.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Well, lemmy is code. From what I heard the indefensible thing about it was the utterly unoptimised DB usage but with influx of new devs that got quite a bit better.

At the beginning there were talks about a fork but one doesn't just fork a FLOSS project if there's no technical reasons, or reasons regarding project management, and in that regard dessalines appears to be sane.

[-] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

🤦‍♀️

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I never knew whether that was true, I just drifted away from it. .ml just means it is on a domain designated for Mali, but they could have explicitly chosen that domain to use it for another purpose.

[-] AlexisFR@jlai.lu 7 points 8 months ago

Damn, I guess looking back, the .ml wasn't about Mali lol

[-] Artyom@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago

This is blatantly not true. To sign up for lemmy.ml, you have to provide an email, name, and a couple sentences of why you're joining. You should stop inventing false statements and spewing them on the internet. It's not good for anyone. In fact, it makes everyone who dislikes lemmy.ml look like idiots.

[-] Moghul@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

It is they who are extreme.

[-] cloudless@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

I don't miss anything there other than the Firefox community.

[-] Neato@ttrpg.network 3 points 8 months ago

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