this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.

Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.


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Title says it all. In combination with the recent post about somebody getting banned from the same comm, there's a trend starting to emerge.

Edit: Sad but unsurprising that this immediately got downvoted by a German user

Edit 2: Looks like this was just one of many such posts that got locked without any reason given. Notice a pattern in the topics locked?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 minutes ago

Why would an instance hosted in Austria have a comm declare that they follow German law... for a Europe-centric subreddit? Either way, posting news about the genocide of Palestinians is hardly denying the existence of Israel.

You folks should see all the comments in the butt-hurt Ich Im echten Leben thread on the previous PTB post. The amount of excuses being made there for being called out as pro-genocide is Wahnsinn.

Naja. Deutsche sind ja Deutsche wieder. See you soon on the next ich_iel thread about this post.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

When I look at their sidebar and unless there is some additional missing context on ban evasions or or the news sources of the topics against the rules (e.g. Al Jazeera on Israel) none of these things are against the rules.

The one I see that is in the same topic area is "we follow german law; do not question the statehood of Israel". I added my own emphasism.

My interpretation is you cannot advocate for the eradication or dismantling of the state. But then this is over moderation on any topic on Israel from any source to probably prevent any discussion and then no moderation of the comments are needed. I wonder if my being an anarchist is a ban-able offense!

This smacks of PTB.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

Oddly, feddit.org is not located in Germany. It's hosted in Austria.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Can someone with a moral compass make another europe channel for people who actually respect human rights?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago

That's pretty blatant ptb

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

What the fuck is going on with [email protected] ???

I just checked and I appear banned there too although I am not sure if it is related to the same idiot(s) banning users for supporting Palestinians.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Seems like they've been banning people who don't cater to or go along with their Zionist apologia. They've also been locking and removing many such posts in support of Palestine, or critical of Israel.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The originazi supporting neonazis.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Apologies, off topic, I love your username

[–] [email protected] 36 points 15 hours ago

You clearly don’t understand. Opposing the genocide means you support the Palestinians committing their own genocide on the Zionists!

Instead of, ya know, giving the Palestinians dignity and emancipation, hoping for a future where they can live side by side or at least in their own sovereign states.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Did they even pretend that there was a reason?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

No, and I updated the main post with more examples

[–] [email protected] 13 points 14 hours ago

This does not look good.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

This just reinforces my previous assertion that the mods of [email protected], or at the very least some of them have a serious Zionism problem. Actually considering the amount of Zionist apologists in the other thread I would wager that Feddit.org has a serious Zionist problem.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 hours ago

I mean just read rule 4 of that comm. It says "don't question the statehood of Israel" in the rule banning hate speech, ostensibly to comply with German law. Germany has no such law (yet). They're at the very least running defense for Zionists. I got warned by the mods to delete or edit parts of my side of an argument where I argued for a one-state solution over there the other day.