All from in this thread in !world@lemmy.world about a chant at a British music festival where an artist said “death, death to the IDF”.

After other users were quoting that chant in the comments and had comments removed and banned, the hero of our story, @theacharnian@lemmy.ca (appearing as “acargitz”) pointed out that under international law, fighting an occupying force is legitimate. But apparently not under world news rules, as their removed comments and the many explanations from mods make clear in the thread.

Equally against the rules is the call for the eradication of an organisation or business, even without an explicit call to violence against individual members of the business.

In the same thread: user @DeathToTheIDF@lemmings.world had comments removed for being anti-American “(again)”, though I couldn’t see the first time. It’s not even clear to me how the removed comments were anti-American.

Bonus points for the “DC Comics” removal reason. Though this seems to be incompetence, rather than malice.

  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
    183·
    10 hours ago

    if [[ instance == "lemmy.world" ]] && [[ topic == "Palestine" ]]; then echo "PTB"; fi

    Serious now, PTB.

    Since the existence of the state of Israel causes violence in the Levant, anyone defending the “survival” of that ethnostate is promoting violence. And yet you don’t see LW mods removing comments defending it - why?

    • Zagorath@aussie.zoneOP
      6·
      5 hours ago

      Oh geez, it gets even worse.

      According to the mod @jordanlund@lemmy.world, even just advocating an end to genocide is worthy of a ban. Like, when you’re really specific and say you’re talking about ending institutions that are doing genocide rather than people, that gets you a ban.

      And so is calling out a person who is advocating for genocide by their choice to silence anti-genocide views. (Officially, my ban was for being mean, but let’s be honest, the real reason is that they felt called out over their support for genocide.)

        • Zagorath@aussie.zoneOP
          1·
          18 minutes ago

          Seems to be. It’s certainly where I’d prefer to post, although it’s not clear to me what its intent is. What makes “world” news? Non-American? That’s my assumption for the LW one. But on quokk.au is it non-Australian?

          Regardless, where I choose to post doesn’t help when I’m commenting on another post. Which is most often the case in any world news Community.

      • jordanlund@lemmy.world
        13·
        5 hours ago

        Alternatively, stupid fucking users can’t tell the difference between removing calls to violence and supporting genocide.

        Then they get butthurt over a temp ban for repeated rule 6 violations.

        If you’re going to participate in a community, READ THE FUCKING RULES.

        “Rule 6: Memes, spam, other low effort posting, reposts, misinformation, advocating violence, off-topic, trolling, offensive, regarding the moderators or meta in content may be removed at any time.”

        https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=135438

        • Zagorath@aussie.zoneOP
          4·
          3 hours ago

          And yet when I went point by point explaining how the comment that you banned the other user for clearly was not a call to violence, you banned me instead. You still have not attempted to justify how you believe it was a call to violence.

          In the absence of even an attempt to justify you actions otherwise, the only obvious interpretation is that you want to avoid criticism of Israel’s genocide.