Wishing specific, violent and painful death on someone was obviously going to result in a ban, whatever anyone’s feelings on the subject are.
Even ignoring the clear violation of the rules, there are a lot of jurisdictions in which not attempting to moderate such comments could lead to liability for the site administrators.
And I do think it’s important to remember that the lemmy.ml instance specifically is tied to two people who are not anonymous. Nutomic and Dessalines may not use their real names on the site, but they are employed to develop Lemmy and their information can easily be obtained by those seeking to hold them to account.
Wishing specific, violent and painful death on someone was obviously going to result in a ban, whatever anyone’s feelings on the subject are.
Even ignoring the clear violation of the rules, there are a lot of jurisdictions in which not attempting to moderate such comments could lead to liability for the site administrators.
And I do think it’s important to remember that the lemmy.ml instance specifically is tied to two people who are not anonymous. Nutomic and Dessalines may not use their real names on the site, but they are employed to develop Lemmy and their information can easily be obtained by those seeking to hold them to account.
Let’s keep this meme, a meme:
Listen, there were always going to be federal agents outside my house. But they better stay outside.