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Due to the severity of the situation and the fast flowing news cycle, we have decided to create a general megathread for discussion regarding the conflict.

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[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, it's not the easiest to read because most of the censorship is "user was banned from community". Which seems to remove the comments as well.

The only comment text listed in the modlog are the truly vile ones.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sometimes you remove comment and then ban the user and the comment removal hasn't had time to propagate. But yeah, the vileness you see is the ballpark for what we remove.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Can you look at this one by @Pipoca 2 hours ago? I won't paste the full text here for obvious reasons, but it seems pretty reasonable, mostly facts, and not vile at all. It just looks like a bad case of overmoderation.

mod Removed Comment - There's a few things going on.

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reason: Bothsidesing a genocide

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I recall correctly it described a genocide primarily through the lense of a two sided religious conflict. We remove that stuff as genocide apologia.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh. I thought that's exactly what this was.

[–] mycorrhiza@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

What are you saying?

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Hence why we remove it, we don't want to promote misinfo especially directed at the target group of an ongoing genocide

[–] Feddyteddy@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there anywhere on Lemmy that is allowing open discussion of this? Or is the censorship high enough up that it's not possible on Lemmy?

[–] Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

That's what I've been looking for too, I think maybe I need to make an account somewhere that doesn't defederste from anyone with differing opinions?

It seems 'People who disagree with me are ontological evil and should be silenced' isn't the best place to get news and accurate information from.