What's the lemmy.ml stance on moderation of political / geopolitical posts? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by mo_ztt@lemmy.world to c/meta@lemmy.ml

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So I'm part of a discussion about moderation on lemmy.ml, and it seems better to ask the community directly instead of continuing to speculate from a distance: What's the attitude here towards political debate and specifically criticism of the Chinese government? Is that allowed, or will mods delete it?

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[-] Habnab@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Check this post: https://lemmy.ml/post/1167199

[-] frevaljee@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Wow... Are there any good instances that aren't run by tankies?

I came here from reddit and picked lemmy.ml without much thought, but if even the largest instances are run by genocide apologists, that doesn't bode well for the rest of the site.

[-] mo_ztt@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So... just FWIW, I've been talking about China and North Korea, a little bit, in posts on both lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml, and as far as I can tell nothing's been deleted and I haven't been banned. I'm not saying the moderation Habnab linked to didn't happen, but that doesn't mean it's universal in the present day on lemmy.ml, and it hasn't been my experience.

This post on lemmy.world actually was removed, but that seems more likely to do with "I don't want this debate here" and less to do with "I object to one particular side of this debate."

I'm still on the fence about the "Is this an actual problem" question, just sharing my data on it so far. YMMV

this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2023

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