Media is owned by billionaires
But this is Lemmy. I thought this place allowed people to exchange about important topics.
Depends on which Lemmy instance is being used, what country their instance is set up in, and local laws surrounding it.
It also depends on how much money the admins of your Lemmy instance have towards fighting legal battles. The reality is that most of them have basically zero money for that, so some of them are going to be more… aggressive, because deep down, they’re actually protecting themselves and the instance first and foremost.
Further, we don’t know if this is actually his manifesto or if it’s a fake or if it’s planted evidence. Some might be deleting it to avoid being sued for defamation of character by Mr. Mangione, if he beats this case, and it turns out that was a false manifesto.
The only reason I have sympathy is because I know how it is to be broke and just not have it in you to be fighting big political battles, especially when you literally cannot afford to retain a lawyer to do so. I’d wager most removals are due to that, but that’s just me putting myself in other people’s shoes.
Do you really think that they would go after social media moderators? How would they even go about that? We are anonymous!
I think, emphasis on the think, it may be due to the ‘class war’ discussions! Ppl are getting radicalized for the better or worse…
We are anonymous!
No offense… but is this your first day on the internet?
The US NSA sucks down the entire contents of the entire internet every day since like 2010.
We’re like five days out from a murder in broad daylight and the suspects’ Reddit and Github accounts have been leaked.
During the Iraq War, sites like Linuxjournal.com were classified as “extremist forum” and people who went to the site were marked for deeper surveillance. The Bush admin also came close to hitting non-violent Quaker protestors with terrorism charges.
The instance admins at Lemmy have to buy a domain, that means the Domain Registrar has their real-life info on who they are. Depending on their country, they might be legally required to keep logs for years. Meaning all it requires is a subpoena for information and they’re required to dig it up and give it to the cops. (How did the cops get their name and contact info? Subpoenaing the Domain Registrar) So anything you did to interact with that site, including your IP, info on your OS, browser, screen size, installed applications, etc. are available for the cops to ask for, if they have a legal investigation they are pursuing. Your ISP might be required to keep logs, too. Since every piece of hardware has a unique MAC address, it’s trivial to cross reference when a specific IP was assigned to a specific MAC address and whose account that MAC address is tied to. They don’t generally hand out internet connections to people who refuse to show ID and pay only in cash.
You are not even close to fucking anonymous here on a public facing website without encryption.
Unless you’re using a VPN and Tor/Tails to connect to the internet, your identity is known. Even then, if a nation-state wants your ass, they’ll find you.
Not lemmy.world they’re bootlickin hard these days
If it hasn’t been clear, the internet has been an absolute disaster for most governments worldwide.
It allows regular citizens to bring kitchen-table issues to each other.
Ask yourself why no laws have been made about things like political parties have to force their paid political commenters to admit that their opinion is paid and that they’re on the clock. Especially after the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the existence of Correct the Record.
Billions have been dumped into “Persona Management” software for the explicit purpose of disrupting these conversations. ( This article is thirteen years old. This isn’t new.)
Information is power.
Control of information is also power, since you are denying access to information to others.
Almost like they’re, I dunno, Manufacturing Consent.
Because mods and admins don’t want to draw the attention of law enforcement.
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Why are you posting this in worldnews?
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Why don’t you just read the public modlog?
- Good point
- The average Lemmy user isn’t even aware of the modlog. The UX could be improved by including the removal reason right under the post/comment.
The average Lemmy user isn’t even aware of the modlog.
I have been wanting an app with de-modding ability since I started using Lemmy. I want to know if a community has insane, power tripping mods before I start participating in it.
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I’ve been reading a bunch of fake ones are being posted everywhere. Maybe they don’t want misinformation circulating.
None of them are confirmed afaik. All of them being “leaked”.
World is for news OUTSIDE the United States.
It exists specifically to give news from other countries room to grow and breathe.
In Politics, nothing about the manifesto is political. It’s not tied to any political policy or politician.
