So I’m part of a discussion about moderation on lemmy.ml, and it seems better to ask the community directly instead of continuing to speculate from a distance: What’s the attitude here towards political debate and specifically criticism of the Chinese government? Is that allowed, or will mods delete it?
From what I’ve seen criticism is allowed.
Here let me try and take the bullet for you: I dislike the way China handles internet censorship and the way people in China casually circumvent it is proof that the whole endeavor was farcical to begin with.
If I don’t get banned and this comment doesn’t get removed, then I guess that’ll answer your question.
Check this post: https://lemmy.ml/post/1167199
Wow… Are there any good instances that aren’t run by tankies?
I came here from reddit and picked lemmy.ml without much thought, but if even the largest instances are run by genocide apologists, that doesn’t bode well for the rest of the site.
I don’t care about criticizing China, but my brother in christ, the “genocide” lie was debunked so long ago, that it doesn’t surprise me that China supporters get pissed every time they see someone still spreading that.
Sure you don’t. And yes I forgot, those Uyghurs just fell down the stairs ¯\_༼ •́ ͜ʖ •̀ ༽_/¯
I love how specific this got, I didn’t even mention or refer to china specifically. There are quite a few communist regimes and genocides to choose from.
So… just FWIW, I’ve been talking about China and North Korea, a little bit, in posts on both lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml, and as far as I can tell nothing’s been deleted and I haven’t been banned. I’m not saying the moderation Habnab linked to didn’t happen, but that doesn’t mean it’s universal in the present day on lemmy.ml, and it hasn’t been my experience.
This post on lemmy.world actually was removed, but that seems more likely to do with “I don’t want this debate here” and less to do with “I object to one particular side of this debate.”
I’m still on the fence about the “Is this an actual problem” question, just sharing my data on it so far. YMMV
