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So why is .ml TLD going back to Mali taking everyone by surprise? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ikidd@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Was there some sort of assurance that nothing was going to happen when the contract expired, and this expectation was changed? Freenom hasn't been registering domains since Jan 1.

It's seeming a little odd to me that this is catching people with their pants down.

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[-] FiskFisk33@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

so a bit like holocaust deniers but on the left extreme of the spectrum

[-] gizzle@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago

They are the best example of why left unity is bullshit. Tankies are okay with literal fascism as long as it doesn't involve a western country.

[-] Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Just because it's authoritarian doesn't mean it's fascist. The USSR murdered millions, and was an authoritarian shithole, but that doesn't mean it was fascist. It was communist. Fascism is terrible, but so are other forms of authoritarianism.

[-] gizzle@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism

It's literally semantics at this point

[-] Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

The "a capitalist economy" bit is the very important distinction. Communist states share most or all of the other traits with fascism. But so do Feudal countries with merchantilist economies, modern dictatorships without government-driven economy, and all other strongly authoritarian systems eventually.