• @[email protected]
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    5 months ago

    I’m on Lemmy.ml and am anything but a “tankie”. Love it here. Tonnes of tech/varied posts in my main subscribed feed and I’ve never noticed anything other than a minimal dose of drama…Facebook or Reddit are much more toxic in comparison which is part of the reason I left those places.

    • @barsquid
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      375 months ago

      As long as you don’t post any uncomfortable facts about China.

      • @[email protected]OP
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        15 months ago

        This is the type of comment written by people that talk about .ml but never actually go to .ml

        Plenty of uncensored criticism of both China and Russia. Just don’t scream at everyone that they are a tankie.

        • @[email protected]
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          95 months ago

          Lmao. I have been to .ml plenty. I have gotten banned for simply mentioning the time Russia shot down a civilian airliner. Twice!

        • @calcopiritus
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          -15 months ago

          I guess it's racist to criticize the unelected government of china now.

          Context: rule 1 is about xenophobia/racism.

          Yep. Plenty of china criticism allowed in .ml

          • @[email protected]OP
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            05 months ago

            Thanks for linking this, this is indeed more censorship than I have seen from other users and this does adjust my opinion of their censorship. Most of your comment is not entirely accurate (and weird as infrastructure is what the public uses) but this line does stand out

            They should not have their entire population as slaves

            Anyway I don’t think that deserves a ban. Thanks for the heads up.

            • @calcopiritus
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              -25 months ago

              Yeah that’s not accurate. They have plenty of oligarchs. Only most of their population is enslaved.

              • @[email protected]OP
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                35 months ago

                One could argue Americans are also slaves. Spam lists like this one. Japan is another Asian society with extreme workloads but they don’t get these comments.

                The standard of living has massive increased in China over the last 50 years. Their population has been worked to the bone, but it didn’t just lead to nothing. We deem China to be almost a first world country. Often slightly worse but on the upper end of the second world. The rail infrastructure part is an example of what it did achieve which is why it’s weird to “China bad” on that specific post.

                Nonetheless I’d rather have seen a discussion than the mods just banning you.

      • @Eldritch
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        145 months ago

        There are some nice people. However that does not negate the glaring issues with the instance.