Soooo the word is spreading that !europe@feddit.org might be biased against palestine supporters.
It all started with:
https://endlesstalk.org/post/88380004
Highlights:
Isn’t feddit.org German based? Seems that they’re following with the German government’s policy of defending Israel at all cost.
They’re following with the German government’s policy of defending Israel fascism at all cost.
Followed by some other accusations:
https://endlesstalk.org/post/88461061
Apparently Deceptichum@quokk.au have been banned without even interacting with this instance at all.
https://endlesstalk.org/post/88623301
The admin answered here:
https://endlesstalk.org/post/88601627?scrollToComments=true
It’s being discussed here as well.
https://endlesstalk.org/post/88622809
Also feddit.org was down for a few minutes. They apparently have been ddos’ed? There are also some mention of a troll named “antiyank”. That guy sounds like a loser. Anybody know about him?
Anyway stimulating drama isn’t it?
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/germany-online-hate-speech-prosecution-60-minutes/
You can be prosecuted for incredibly silly things in Germany. Someone called a politician a dick online and got raided for it. To me it sounds like an incredibly stupid law.
They say “social media companies” (which includes feddit.org? Maybe?) can be prosecuted if they don’t crack down on “hate speech,” although in practice they have been doing it almost entirely to the actual users. They have gone after Twitter. It’s not obvious to me that feddit.org could get prosecuted in reality, but it’s not obvious to me that they could not, and it’s not my balls in the vice at the end of the day.
On the other hand, we are quickly reaching a point in the world where it’s either fight for justice, or we’re all going to work in the mines and face firing squads if we disagree. Germany of all places should have some familiarity with the concept “fuck what is lawful, this is wrong, I want to be on the right side of history even if I might get sent to the principal’s office.” No consequence the feddit admins would be facing would be life-changing in any reality, and there are a lot of other people whose consequences definitely are.