A few years ago, the Lemmy Developers decided to keep their political views on lemmygrad while keeping lemmy.ml more neutral. Now they are banning users who are critical of their actions and bigotry.
Anti-Tankie posts may put you at risk of being banned from commenting and posting on the lemmy.ml instance.
I started with an account on Lemmy.ml and was banned when I argued with the owner/developer, Dessalines, about the Xinjiang genocide being real. I noped out of there very quickly, and you should too. Other users have been banned for questioning the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Wait, what do they think happened at Tienanmen Square then? And do they paint the wiki article about it as “fake news”?
Yes, literally. They argue it was a “mostly peaceful” student protest and a few people maybe got killed when they attacked police. They argue the scope and severity has been fabricated by the West, and that there is no evidence of a massacre.
All the usual tinfoil hat stuff you can expect from leftwing authoritarians.
Uhhh do they know that the famous tank man photo is just one photo of a series of very violent ones? They were basically power washing tank crushed corpses into gutters.
Arguments range from “tank man was peacefully moved after the photo” to “the photo was staged by the CIA.” It really is as dumb as it sounds, but insular communities have a way of amplifying and reinforcing crazy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeFzeNAHEhU
lol
https://streamable.com/unjnw9
90% right, but hexbear isn’t actually left wing, they just use a few terms as a mask, but all of their views and positions are extremely far right.
They blame the students for the deaths and that it also never happened.
Oh wow really? You should link that!
I had to dig a bit because Dessalines deleted the comments, but I found a screenshot. It references the Xinjiang genocide, not the Tiananmen Square massacre. Other users in the same thread were getting banned for discussing the Tiananmen Square massacre, but my ban was based on my comments about the Xinjiang genocide.
He deleted the comments? Can you link to the thread? Surely some of the comments by the other users should still be up
It was many months ago and my account doesn’t show any of the comments anymore. Can you tell me how to locate the thread if my comments have been deleted? The username is in the screenshot.
Surely if he deleted my comments, he deleted all the other critical comments too. I don’t follow your logic.
Edit: I found his comment on the thread. As you can see, my comments have been deleted. Most of the other comments on that thread being critical of Lemmy.ml and Dessalines have also been removed due to “orientalism.” This is what they call “being critical of China.”
https://sh.itjust.works/post/32859?scrollToComments=true
Found it, some more damning stuff in there about how often the lemmy devs ban shit they disagree with
I just had several comments deleted in a thread about the CCP. They left an anti-American, obvious lie and deleted my calm, factual correction. Then they deleted my comment pointing out it was deleted. They also deleted other people’s comments calmly discussing the CCP in a negative light.
FUCK Lemmy.ml
You should post that!
Which side did you argue?
That it’s real, of course. Why would arguing the inverse get me banned on Lemmy.ml?
Um it’s pretty obvious when we’re discussing tankies what view got him banned.