Modlog: https://photon.lemmy.world/modlog?user=7438570
Also ft. A rare sighting of Arthur Besse aka cypherpunks, also .ml admin, who did the original censorship
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Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!
What is a Tankie?
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Basic Rules:
Sh.itjust.works Instance rules apply! If you are from other instances, please be mindful of the rules. — Basically, don't be a dick.
Hate-Speech — You should be familiar with this one already; practically all instances have the same rules on hate speech.
Apologia — (Using the Modern terminology for Apologia) No Defending, Denying, Justifying, Bolstering, or Differentiating authoritarian acts or endeavours, whether it be a Pro-CCP viewpoint, Stalinism, Islamic Terrorism or any variation of Tankie Ideology.
Revisionism — No downplaying or denying atrocities past and present. Calling Tankies shills, foreign/federal agents, or bots also falls under this rule. Extremists exist. They are real. Do not call them shills or fake users, as it handwaves their extremism.
Off-topic Discussion — Do not discuss unrelated topics to the point of derailing the thread. Stay focused on the direct content of the post, rather than engaging in arguments that lack mutual agreement.
Brigading — If you're here because this community was linked in another thread, please refrain from voting, commenting, or manipulating the post in any way. This includes alt accounts. All votes are public, and if you are found to be brigading, you will be banned.
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You'll be warned if you're violating the instance and community rules. Continuing poor behaviour after being warned will result in a ban or removal of your comments. Bans typically last only 24 hours, but each subsequent infraction doubles the duration. Depending on the content, the ban time may be increased. You may request an unban at any time.
What even is rule 1
.ml Instance Rule 1 is "officially": No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
The apples represent tanks. So posting images of apples is bigotry against tankies!
New policy: always reply to tankies with images of apples and a banana.
no sinophobia apparently, eventhough sino, "countryphobia isnt an actual hate like with race, or a person of a specific class."
The alternate to the less popular rule 2 that encompasses banning anything remotely critical of any of their favorite dictators.
Yeah, months ago I posted an article from a Chinese research group, in a Chinese university, published by the CCP, about how 1 billion people live on less than 340 dollars a month, which, by Chinese standards, is poverty, and most of the rest of the population wasn't making much more. This didn't get me banned, but they deleted the post, under rule 2. Oops 1billion people were actually not pulled out of poverty according to China's own financial research.
Within a week of the article started hitting western news sources it all but vanished, in normal media, very suddenly, as the CCP suppressed it. So apple, and tree.
That must have happened with an alt account, because it wasn’t this one: https://sh.itjust.works/modlog?actionType=All&userId=16390800
This is a newsweek article that talks about the article that was scrubbed. It's newsweek, but they give all the information about the article. I can only find articles about it being scrubbed as apposed to the article I originally read. If you are interested in what I am talking about.
https://www.newsweek.com/china-article-censorship-1-billion-people-monthly-income-2000-yuan-poverty-1856031
It was, and one created from a different instance too
Don't talk about Tankie Club.
It's a reference to fight club. much easier to recognize it this way, so it's ok