r/privacy moderators blacklist German tech news site Heise, censor posts critical of DHS
r/privacy moderators blacklist German tech news site Heise, censor posts critical of DHS
Heise blacklisted
The post
Censored, all comments locked.
The removal reason
Why this is bullshit
This is not a normal removal message. Most of this removal reason is from a template, the portion including "Now blacklisted" was manually added and has never been used before.
Heise is based in Germany, where the best privacy laws (the GDPR) are enforced strictly. If this site is blacklisted, then any site can be blacklisted.
"Please link to a credible source" is part of the original community rules, and maybe the moderator who edited the message forgot to remove it, because Heise is credible.
US border security questions are suppressed
The post
Censored, all comments locked.
The removal reason
Why it's bullshit
Their post is based on legitimate concerns from legitimate news sites. There is no FUD here, there is no attack on any "privacy mainstay" unless the moderators believe the US surveillance apparatus needs to be protected by them.
And if we needed more evidence the moderators are protecting the DHS, they also removed this comment from the thread's OP:
Bonus: mods censor a guide to safe border crossing
The post
The removal reason
Why this is bullshit
No rules were broken. Moderator carrotcypher cannot even be assed to fabricate one. (Why not just blacklist The Guardian too?)
At this point in time we can probably consider the vast majority of Reddit mods as power tripping, with the small minority looking for exits like !General@50501.chat
Maybe crosspost this to !watchredditdie@sh.itjust.works to keep track?
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It's fine, they don't moderate any of !privacy@lemmy.ml or !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Not really a problem. Unlike Reddit, no instance is required to federate with them, and any user can block them individually. On top of that, if users don't like how their instance is managed or moderated, they can leave for another one that is (or even self-host).
It's why we have multiple Privacy communities on Lemmy. No one person can lay claim to a topic or hold users hostage. There's always an alternative.
So long as they're upholding Fediverse conduct codes, I don't have a problem with them having a foot or their entire body here.