Free speech hero Elon Musk is yet again silencing his perceived opponents. This time, he is doing J.D. Vance’s dirty work.
Independent journalist Ken Klippenstein on Thursday reported on the leaked 271-page dossier on Vance, allegedly from the Trump campaign’s research team, which mainstream media outlets had refused to publish. Just hours later, Klippenstein was banned from X, where he’d shared a link to his reporting and to the dossier
I want you to be right, but I’m not so sure anymore.
For example, yesterday I was having a good discussion over on [email protected] about how terrible the media bias fact checker bot is, and when we started talking about the fact that it feels like there must be some kind of sponsorship deal involved, the mods removed the post. They cited a rule that the discussion absolutely didn’t break. So, it appears we’re free to talk about anything we want on Lemmy, unless a particular mod starts to feel sad or offended, or wants to hide something from the rest of us, and then they behave like anyone else with power and act unilaterally regardless of the ideals of the platform.
Oh, and it says a lot about how mods feel about an otherwise benign issue, when they remove all discussion of it. A sponsorship deal was only a guess, no one knew if that was true for sure, but when the mods deleted the discussion it made me convinced we were onto something. So, that kind of backfired.
To anyone who saw that yesterday, it made me furious. I almost quit Lemmy entirely. If we can’t be critical of mod decisions without fear of all our content being deleted by said mods, then this place is not worth my time. I’m going to stick around to see if things improve, but I’m frankly not optimistic.
That is ridiculous. If the mods have an opinion about what you’re saying, they should reply, not remove the comment like cowards.
100%
They need to get a backbone and engage with the community, not police it when it suits their interests.
I understand your position, but I have to say that I appreciate communities that are at least a bit curated.
Seeing the same three guys having a go at each other about the same barely on topic thing in every post is such a let down.
Can you link to that conversation? I’m not seeing in your history or on their mod log.
It looks like the mods just restored the post! I guess a little shame goes a long way…
Link to the modlog
Edit: fixed link
2nd edit: I initially said the convo was on [email protected], but it was actually on [email protected], my bad. That’s probably why you couldn’t find it.
that’s entirely on brand for lemmy.ml in my opinion. hopefully that kind of behavior is less prevalent in other instances, but it’s still incredibly annoying that it happens anywhere.
Reminder: Click “source” to see [removed by mod].