I for one have stopped posting any content to lemmy.ml communities.

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      I was in an argument with some .ml tankie yesterday, and they had the gall to say that “free speech that doesn’t threaten the government is tolerated everywhere,” in response to a comment saying that the CCP censors speech. They didn’t like my assertion that that statement also applies to Nineteen Eighty-Four’s Ingsoc party. It’s technically true, that free speech that doesn’t threaten the government is tolerated in Oceania. It’s just that the government considers any dissent threatening.

      • My last straw was when I made a meme on their meme instance that had no Asians, anyone related to Asia, or racism in it. And they removed the post with 500+ up votes and a healthy discussion, because my title was “Rice.”

        They literally told me rice, the word by itself, is racist. I just chose a random word for the title to fill the blank.

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          But they don’t even pretend to be anarchists, they’re Marxist-Leninists, hence the ml

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            If “they dont even pretend to be anarchists”, then why would the comment

            They’re not anarchists tho. Don’t associate anarchism with .ml bullshit

            be necessary in the first place?

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              If you look at the comment above that one, you might be able to figure it out

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            Is it a fallacy? I frequently run into self-styled anarchists who describe other self-styled anarchists as “not real anarchists”.

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              .ml people don’t even describe themselves as anarchists, from what I’ve seen. And those that do, often hide behind that label in bad faith

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        Or more subtly:

        I can’t even say life’s a bitch over there without being filtered because of misogyny which I guess? But that’s not my intent and I don’t think the majority read it with that connotation. What if I just want to quote a Nas classic?

        It gets dumber: last I checked their word filter doesn’t pay any regard to a comment’s set language so even If I set my comment to French “retard” will be filtered on ml communities and to their users regardless of where I comment.

        Je suis en retard
        Becomes
        Je suis en removed

        Edit: actually, let’s see if this has been fixed, test French comment in reply to this:

        Edit2: lmao