The administration of lemmy.ml routinely abuses its rule 1 anti-bigotry policy to conduct political censorship, deleting documented facts regarding the ukraine invasion, holodomor, and xinjiang abuses under false pretexts of imperialist propaganda, misinformation, and nazism while leaving pro-Kremlin talking points untouched.

Verifiable public moderation logs prove this systemic shielding of state propaganda, down to moderators inverting standard geopolitical context, such as noting that fringe extremist units do not make an entire democratic nation fascist, to ban dissenters under the explicit excuse of being a Nazi.

https://lemmy.ml/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=25800386 and https://lemmy.world/modlog/446?page=1&actionType=All&userId=20355358.

The Europe community moderator (https://lemmy.world/u/geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml), who focuses exclusively on criticizing the West and never Russia or China, banned me as a Nazi.

I decided to block the lemmy.ml instance entirely to avoid any further interaction.

I see that there are dozens of relevant posts; you can find the relevant report posts here

Log screenshots

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[–] slag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Fucking Christ. We aren't on .ml but you wouldn't know it from the number of people absolutely obsessed with them. Just ignore it if you don't like it. Join a de-federated instance, block the communities, whatever. Bitching here has absolutely no impact.

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[–] blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (5 children)

I'm more curious how .ml users feel about that mod's idea that rape is an acceptable action to do in certain contexts, for example if a woman served in a Western military.

I can understand all their political positions and opinions but that one seems beyond the pale.

[–] antonim@lemmy.world 15 points 14 hours ago

That's nothing unusual for a user who excused pedophilia and posted a fascist dogwhistle.

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[–] impairedimperator@lemmy.zip 29 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (23 children)

I mean. You can also just go to their front page and read the "about this instance" paragraph where they clarify that they support a specific political ideology and will not tolerate dissent.

They explicitly built a walled garden. Don't be surprised they maintain the walls. There are other instances.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Not from Voyager iirc, which also iirc is by far the most used third party app? Also, for multiple years that what is Lemmy.ml link did not work - it pointed to a post, which I think a later version of Lemmy.ml allowed communities to be made private, and then they never bothered to check what would happen for anyone not logged into a ML account, so it would just give like a 404 not found error for everyone else.

Agreed that it's not impossible to find out who they are - just that ML makes an exceedingly poor representation of the Threadiverse to people coming over here from Reddit. So when they see "death to the USA", and they are... you know, in the USA, they often nope right out and not only never come back, they spread the word to anyone who will listen that that is what "we" here who use Lemmy are.

Btw, in case you were not aware, we are a tankie bar (see: Paradox of Intolerance).

Also, despite all the curation they perform within their garden, they won't allow people to block the Lemmy.ml instance - so it's not entirely a walled garden so much as it is a delivery system for the messages shared by Lemmy.ml users.

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 104 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

You must be new around here. This is old news and a reason a lot of places block ml

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 62 points 22 hours ago

It's important to document their behavior anyway, because not al places block ml.

[–] lithiumground@lemmy.world 47 points 22 hours ago (28 children)

I knew that lemmy.ml is tankies, but removing comments/posts that don't serve their agenda is new to me.

[–] Pratai@piefed.ca 5 points 13 hours ago

They’ve always done this. “Rule 1” Is pretty much a .ml meme catch all for “you aren’t allowed to use facts here. Agree or be removed”

[–] Lehmuusa@nord.pub 21 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

One of my first experiences in the Fediverse was mentioning the Uyghur genocide and having my comment promptly removed by the .ml admins. They've been doing this all the time.

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[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 44 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

In large part that is what the word "tankie" means - denial of reality, instead substituting their own, which can only be done inside of a controlled echo chamber. Tankie is no way is synonymous with Communist.

Think MAGA but on the left - it's otherwise identical in terms of behaviors, merely different talking points.

You may find this illustrative:

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 59 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (15 children)

It’s good to have this documented, thanks. It’s one thing for everyone to “know” they’re Tankies, it’s another to have compiled evidence and A/B examples like this to point to.

[–] XiJinpingStanAccount@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 hours ago (6 children)

Was anyone hiding being a "tankie"? I mean I don't really use the term I just call it Marxist-Leninist but if that's what you want to call it I'm fine with that. I mean I'm clearly not trying to hide my political views if you look at my username. Not sure what you needed "evidence" for. But more power to ya i guess.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

I mean, you shouldn’t. “XiJinpingStanAccount” is a glorious handle. I salute you, comrade.

[–] XiJinpingStanAccount@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 hours ago

lol thanks

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