16h ago

Feddit.org officially announces they will ban criticism of Israel and pro-Palestinian posts and comments.

Regarding Mid-East-related Comments on !europe - feddit.org

Feddit.org announced today that they are changing their rules to match German law despite their server not being hosted in Germany.

And much more. The full original post can be found here, or

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What's interesting is that I got blatantly being called a nazi by those particular mods. I reported to admins and nothing happened.
So obviously there's a double filter here about "not tolerating accusations of nazism".
I just left, blocked !europe@feddit.org and became very wary of feddit.org administration. So this doesn't take me as much as a surprise as I have already seen issues with both that community and an admin team that's clearly not objective when talking about that community admins.

Calling for the dissolution of Israel, or calling for a one-state solution without specifying equal rights for all people; Jewish in particular
This part floored me. As if it wasnt Israel that was currently denying equal rights to Palestinians and not the other way around... this is just the zionist version of 'all lives matter' bullshit.

Genuine freak shit. Maybe wait until the government bothers you, don't preempt them
- Says the person not at risk of early moring police raids of their home including months long confiscation of all their communication devices and costly legal proceedings to get them back.
  
  I'm a communist trans woman with guns who helps house people for free in the USA. I've had ICE and police show up to my doorstep before. For some reason, I doubt a bunch of cishet white nerd guys in Germany are about to have as many problems as I do for hosting anti israel content on a small social site.

Time to defederate Feddit.org.
To bad. They weren't that bad, IME. But denying criticism of a state actively carrying out a globally recognized genocide... that's a strict rule I've adopted.
If midwest.social won't defederate, I'll have to block the whole instance.
- The post literally says that you can critizise that 🤦
  Please understand that there can be some nuance on the topic and that people in Germany are understandably extra careful on the topic.

I am curious about the reactions in the thread linked in the OP, but I can't access it. I don't know if the thread is deleted either since I can't access even the server.
Are they temporarily down?
EDIT:
False alarm. I was able to access it after some struggle. I don't know why I can't access it in my desktop but I was able to access it via mobile. At any rate, it's a problem on my end.
Reading the linked post, I'm glad to note that it seems to me that the consensus is largely against the change. Even the few comments from those in the instance is pretty much against it.

Wow, real mask off moment, though they were using the "German law" pretext for a while now.

How do I ban an entire instance
- Assuming you're using the default Lemmy UI, there's a block settings menu in your account settings page. It's worth exploring, there's some good options to play around with.

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Are they temporarily down?