I just realised, I can’t post anything on lemmy.ml

So, I checked https://lemmy.ml/modlog, there’s a new moderator.

All posts and comments talking about China, Jinping, Russia, and Putin have been deleted and users banned

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Their “anti-Orientalism” (read as pro-tankie) policy has been known for a good while.

      • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        Sure, there was a post back in June posted in !worldnews@lemmy.ml about a dam in Ukraine being destroyed. Obviously a contentious topic. There were several threads speaking poorly of Russia and its administration, many such threads were deleted and users banned, with “Orientalism” typically cited as the reason in the modlog.

        It’s the admins’ right to dictate what is or isn’t acceptable. Generally they are hands off on most topics, but Anti-Russia, anti-China sentiment is looked down upon by admins and often removed/banned within lemmy.ml. Just saying that this choice of new moderator doesn’t change their moderation philosophy, it only complements it.

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          1 year ago

          That’s a weird description to give it in the mod log.

          Anyway it’s fairly obvious to anyone who isn’t a tankie that their leadership bans dissent and wrongthink. Imagine if places banned you for calling someone a lib like .ml folks love to.