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Pro-Luigi Mangione content is filling up social platforms — and it's a challenge to moderate it
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is there a point to this?
My original comment was that we have to moderate to keep the site from being taken down. All these arguments change nothing.
It feels like an attack, but I'll leave that to others to decide.
Sounds like they just want clarification on what is/is not okay. I had similar questions. It's not related to the Luigi situation but is saying someone should be executed by the state advocating violence? I was banned from reddit because of inconsistent moderation on that topic.
Sadly, moderation is done by humans, and each person has their own way of moderating. This is why I generally don't interact in communities I moderate - helps me distance myself from the content I get reports for. I try to look at the rules, and treat them as a "living document" - one that lists the guidelines, but with the understanding it's the spirit, not the letter that matters at times.
I've been moderating this community for a year, and I'll admit - it's hard. Moderate too much, and I'm a tyrant. Moderate too little, and "you let every Nazi say what they want here".
I'm still working on a balance that works best.
Is lemmy.world hosted in the USA? The US has extremely strong first amendent protections for speech, except for things such as hate speech and direct threats of violence.
Being in support of someone being killed or someone who has been killed is not legally considered to be a direct threat of violence, because that person is not saying they themselves will commit the violence, just that they hope someone else will.
No. As outlined in this document: