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[โ€“] StJohnMcCrae@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Free speech that the mods agree with that is. I was perma banned for c/Europe for privately objecting when a moderator removed this image I posted in a reply decrying antisemitic conspiracy theories in their forum. The mods left the libelous post up, and deleted my sarcastic, but otherwise civil response.

Maybe my opinion was wrong, but it certainly wasn't dangerous, hateful, threatening or intentionally misleading, as the original post was. Lemmy has a lot going for it, but let's not pretend that free speech on this site is anything other than window dressing. The Mods are still judge, jury and executioner inside their fiefdoms.

It just hasn't become a problem for the majority of users, because we're a relatively small, ideologically homogeneous community. If the fediverse ever becomes mainstream, you'll start seeing that freedom of speech disappear as moderators sort out the dissenters, and authoritarians work their way into positions of authority.

[โ€“] Blaze@feddit.nl 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] StJohnMcCrae@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah turns out speech here isn't so free when your opinions run counter to what the mods deem politically correct.

Which is the whole point of freedom of speech.

[โ€“] Blaze@feddit.nl 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The second point addresses that

[โ€“] StJohnMcCrae@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm sure I'll have much better luck on the .ml instance ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] Blaze@feddit.nl 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[โ€“] StJohnMcCrae@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Has 100 members and only one person has ever posted there.

[โ€“] Blaze@feddit.nl 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Still better than if you were to start another community by yourself

[โ€“] StJohnMcCrae@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

Ok buddy ๐Ÿ˜„