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Apparently there's an issue with some instances banning users for criticizing authoritarian governments. Is lemmy.world a safe place to criticize governments?

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[–] lhx@lemmy.world 156 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Well let’s find out: Free Ukraine! Fuck Russia. Fuck China!

[–] totallynotsocsa@beehaw.org 46 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Mao Zedong is objectively one of the worst people in all of human history, and his influence held China back for decades, and continues to harm it to this day.

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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

fuck the orcs. fuck the CCCP. Winne the Pooh shouldn’t run a country

[–] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 1 year ago (25 children)

fuck the orcs

hate the government not the people am i right?

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[–] FlaxPicker@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

i mean lemmy.world server is in germany, but the guy who runs it is dutch so probably has a pretty open policy with freedom of speech i would imagine. And i mean real freedom of speech not the dog whistle for being a dick/racist/phobe

[–] phillycodehound@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago (11 children)

As one of the Admins of Lemmy.World we're pretty open but if you're a dick and unnecessarily a troll we'll kick ya.

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[–] sunspider@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

Hey there. This instance currently follows the code of conduct and rules for mastodon.world: https://mastodon.world/about

Discussion and civil criticism of these subjects is allowed, but name calling, ad hominem attacks, and other uncivil behaviour breaks the rules.

Also remember that specific communities here may have additional rules.

It looks like we can't pin comments yet, so apologies if this reply gets buried. For now I'm going to lock this post, as the discussion has degraded and is full of rule-breaking.

[–] SPOOSER@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All governments should be able to be criticized if we're going to be honest about having genuinely open discussions.

[–] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Seeing as having the ability to criticize gov'ts is a fundamental part of democracy I fail to see why any social media site would think banning it should be best-practice.

That said I do take issue with some posters who seem to rant on a specific target without any sort of evidentiary data. The slide into "I don't need proof to back my opinion" is a prolific and dangerous thing these days.

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[–] N00dle@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Haven’t had any problems so far! Taiwan numbah one! Fuck Putin!

[–] Larsa@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] Jaded5450@beehaw.org 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Indeed, many Chinese people are very nice. Interesting language, culture, and cuisine.

But fuck the CCP.

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[–] FlaxPicker@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have friends from China who are very good humans.

[–] Frod@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Jessica@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

You can actually use https://lemmymap.feddit.de/ to get an idea of how free a particular lemmy instance is thanks to the option to show blocks. Lemmy.world seems to be the only large instance that has not been blocked by or blocked any other instances

[–] nodsocket@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

There is a mod log on Lemmy so you can see why people get banned.

[–] Mpeach45@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (11 children)
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[–] Nymphioxetine@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

Fuck the CCP.

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Testing, testing, fuck authoritarian regimes, Xinnie the Pooh is a cuck, Putin is a super super gay who likes long big cocks, fuck Trump, fuck Biden, and fuck the crooks in DC. Testing testing.

[–] skeletorsass@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I just hope people do not spam it to farm karma like on reddit.

[–] thoro@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reads the brave, totally not circle-jerked comments in this thread

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[–] STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Lemmy.World and Lemmy. Ml are two different places. Lemmy ML was created as a safehaven for people from subreddits that were banned like ChapoTrapHouse. Lemmy. World is designed to be the general Lemmy Community. Lemmy. Ml was the biggest until the reddit issues but I am pretty sure Lemmy World is after overtaking them. Lemmy.ML is trying to steer traffic here because they know that their community wasn't going to be palatable to the vast majority of people. There's a wide variety here so it's very hard to pinpoint where this place's userbase stands politically.

Lemmy. ML and Lemmy.world are different places and it's for the best if we just leave each be and have our own communities in peace.

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