• Polar
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    1391 year ago

    I got banned for telling someone it’s important to check for cancer, on a post about a sports person that died from rectal cancer, and I was banned permanently for “harassment”.

    I appealed and lost.

      • Uranium3006
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        281 year ago

        The distinction between mod subreddit bans and site wide bans is basically gone

      • @[email protected]
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        141 year ago

        Yeah I got banned from greenandpleasent the same time Russia invaded Ukraine because it was taken over by a bunch of boot lickers and likely actual paid russian shills, probably some of the same crowd hosting hexbear et al. And got a site wide ban soon after…

      • Polar
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        121 year ago

        Oh I got banned from the site. Reddit admins banned me lmao.

      • @[email protected]
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        111 year ago

        yep, and yet somehow reddit never does anything about the report abuse for the ‘self help’ thing which id get dozens of PM’s a day about at one point, reported them and nothing was ever done about it

        • @[email protected]
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          151 year ago

          Its an epithet for authcoms (authoritarian communists) and MLs (Marxists-Leninists). Essentially referring to justifications of using tanks / violence to quash uprisings or dissent.

          • @[email protected]
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            Years of being on reddit has conditioned me to always respond to this picture with

            So brave

            I literally cannot stop myself from posting it.

        • @[email protected]
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          -11 year ago

          It’s a useless term that Trots and anarchists use to scream at people that disagree with them like babies (to be fair to the anarchists, they aren’t that far off by age)

        • @[email protected]
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          There’s two definitions, the former means redfash who overlook the fascist elements of former socialisms, particularly those of Marxist-Leninist orientation. (the fact they use tankie rather than redfash should tell you they’re not entirely comfortable using fascist as a pejorative, want to guess why?)

          The latter is basically a dog whistle used by reactionaries to mean communist. Basically a synonym of “woke” for those not overtly racist and applies to anyone with left-of-hitler politics. Think your blue maga types who swear they’re progressive.

          Regardless, the word was invented by the CIA to sew division among the left and should not be used by anyone.

      • @[email protected]OP
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        91 year ago

        If you approach things from a scientific perspective, the meaning of harassment is just “political speech I don’t like”. Some kinds of political speech, like protests and appeals, are important and should be allowed, but can easily be labelled harassment. Other kinds of political speech, like sexual harassment or hate speech, are bad. “Harassment” as a word isn’t a useful one. Two people having a fight are harassing each other, regardless of who’s right. We have created a society that hates political speech and welcomes the use of state and corporation violence to suppress dissenting politics.

        I don’t say this from a place of callousness. I’ve been a victim of the most vicious harassment and it’s given me PTSD. And what I learned from the experience is, talented manipulators and people with social power will always benefit from being able to call political speech harassment.

        • @[email protected]
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          51 year ago

          harassment is just “political speech I don’t like”

          Some communities on Lemmy have switched to calling it “misinformation”. As in: you provide links to reputable sources to support your point, and it’s “misinformation”.

          Harassment seems to be more of a label for “too many people downvoted you, and you still dared to answer”.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            That explains why a troll tried ban baiting me for “disinformation” when I said something they didn’t like.

          • @[email protected]OP
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            01 year ago

            Yeah, that’s better. Misinformation covers situations like defamation and many kinds of hate speech. Although there still needs to be a solution for stalking and sexual harassment, as long as it doesn’t overlap and outlaw protest or deplatforming.

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              Misinformation covers situations like defamation and many kinds of hate speech.

              Not really:

              • Misinformation: “false information that is spread, regardless of whether there is intent to mislead.”
              • Disinformation: “deliberately misleading or biased information; manipulated narrative or facts; propaganda.”

              The difference is between “I don’t believe you, so you get banned” vs. “I think you’re trying to mislead people, so you get banned”.

              Misinformation allows banning any information a mod believes to be “false”, for whatever reason, no matter the proof.

              (PS: if any mod doesn’t agree with these definitions, they could remove this comment based on “misinformation”)

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      God that’s actually worse than my banning (I posted a Google Streetview link of a layby). Incredible. Has anyone ever appealed and won? Ever?

      • Flying Squid
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        41 year ago

        Yes, I did. But only because multiple subreddit mods, including all of the mods in the subreddit that triggered the ban, got behind me due to the bullshit nature of the ban.

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        41 year ago

        I won my appeal once. I was banned for “hate speech”. I was literally being 100% sarcastic against someone who was truly being a hateful shithead. I assume I was banned by an idiot who doesn’t understand sarcasm exists, but unbanned by someone who has talked to another human before.

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          Person: “nien! slur slur

          You: “don’t be a cracker”

          Reddit: “Your comment has violated hate speech rules”