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Mod abuses, power trips

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A place to discuss and call out mod abuse on Lemmy (or elsewhere if you really want to), or power trips

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  2. Don't harass people
  3. Explain the situation and context, explain why you think this is abusive
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I just found out that there's a local mod abuse community. Cool!

A lemmy.ml admin (https://lemmy.ml/u/cypherpunks) censored blasphemy, claiming rule 1 "No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia".

Here is the original comment: https://lemmy.zip/comment/20729770 and post: https://lemmy.ml/post/34489826

The admin also censored this image: https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/39f58cfd-d6b7-4fdc-bbf6-b8c4b465c423.png (see here: https://i.ibb.co/YFHb5KxK/image.png)

I am not sure if everyone agrees with me, but I believe blasphemy should be a right. Blasphemy isn't bigotry!

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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Everyone has things that cause their emotions to out pace their reason. If you are mindful of this you can spot it in yourself. Those that never question their motivations are the ones that end up like some of these mods. They want some kind of power over their life to offset how powerless they feel in the real. They take a fanatical hard line stance on something and lose perspective.