• marcos@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      That’s quite a bad way to express yourself.

      But then, the Lemmy front-page sending unsuspecting new people into a place where they will censored if they try to speak against of dictators and human rights violations isn’t a good thing. So yeah, Lemmy is better with the ML not listed.

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      5 months ago

      I’m on Lemmy.ml and am anything but a “tankie”. Love it here. Tonnes of tech/varied posts in my main subscribed feed and I’ve never noticed anything other than a minimal dose of drama…Facebook or Reddit are much more toxic in comparison which is part of the reason I left those places.

        • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOP
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          5 months ago

          This is the type of comment written by people that talk about .ml but never actually go to .ml

          Plenty of uncensored criticism of both China and Russia. Just don’t scream at everyone that they are a tankie.

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            5 months ago

            Lmao. I have been to .ml plenty. I have gotten banned for simply mentioning the time Russia shot down a civilian airliner. Twice!

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            5 months ago

            I guess it's racist to criticize the unelected government of china now.

            Context: rule 1 is about xenophobia/racism.

            Yep. Plenty of china criticism allowed in .ml

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              5 months ago

              Thanks for linking this, this is indeed more censorship than I have seen from other users and this does adjust my opinion of their censorship. Most of your comment is not entirely accurate (and weird as infrastructure is what the public uses) but this line does stand out

              They should not have their entire population as slaves

              Anyway I don’t think that deserves a ban. Thanks for the heads up.

              • calcopiritus@lemmy.world
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                5 months ago

                Yeah that’s not accurate. They have plenty of oligarchs. Only most of their population is enslaved.

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                  5 months ago

                  One could argue Americans are also slaves. Spam lists like this one. Japan is another Asian society with extreme workloads but they don’t get these comments.

                  The standard of living has massive increased in China over the last 50 years. Their population has been worked to the bone, but it didn’t just lead to nothing. We deem China to be almost a first world country. Often slightly worse but on the upper end of the second world. The rail infrastructure part is an example of what it did achieve which is why it’s weird to “China bad” on that specific post.

                  Nonetheless I’d rather have seen a discussion than the mods just banning you.

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          5 months ago

          There are some nice people. However that does not negate the glaring issues with the instance.