So I made a comment on worldnews criticizing Chinese activity in the south china sea and apparently got banned for it by the automod. This happen to anyone else? Is this Lemmy’s version of the need help post and the shape of things to come?

The instance I posted in was Lemmy.ml

    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
      52·
      9 months ago

      Based on what china is doing to fishing and military boats from the Philippines, I doubt they’re just after ‘transit’. They’re making a territorial claim. Not much different from Russia’s claim on Ukraine, except that its happening in international waters.

      This is what OP was banned for. It’s not just the world news community, the admins police wrongthink across the entire instance.

      • Mastengwe@lemm.ee
        171·
        9 months ago

        And the Streisand effect has carried those words to people who would have never seen them.

        Hope you’re reading this .ml!

      • cottonmon@lemmy.world
        61·
        9 months ago

        I wonder what the listed offence was, because what OP stated in the comment is absolutely true. Did they conveniently forget the 9-dash line? China is absolutely laying claim to waters that have already been declared to belong to the Philippines.

        • ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee
          71·
          9 months ago

          Yeah I had an account there too and I set it up like every other account. Found out later on that ml was Marxist Lennin so I setup shop at lemm.ee instead

          • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            105·
            9 months ago

            .ml is the top level domain for the country of Mali. .ml domains are free, so it is just a coincidence. Also, Marxist-Leninism is not a ‘tankie’ theory, by itself. There are plenty of communists and socialists that aren’t simps for China and Russia.

            I would even say that you can’t be a true communist and support either of these countries, because these countries are not communist at all. They are just authoritarian capitalistic hellholes, with sprinkles of social policies to give the illusion of pursuing a communist society.

              • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
                2·
                9 months ago

                Fuck I’m retarded.

                I’ve been here for months and kind of known all these components but just never connected the dots.

                I was even defending Lemmy at one point.

                • barsoap@lemm.ee
                  1·
                  9 months ago

                  Well, lemmy is code. From what I heard the indefensible thing about it was the utterly unoptimised DB usage but with influx of new devs that got quite a bit better.

                  At the beginning there were talks about a fork but one doesn’t just fork a FLOSS project if there’s no technical reasons, or reasons regarding project management, and in that regard dessalines appears to be sane.

          • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
            3·
            9 months ago

            I never knew whether that was true, I just drifted away from it. .ml just means it is on a domain designated for Mali, but they could have explicitly chosen that domain to use it for another purpose.

      • Artyom@lemm.ee
        6·
        9 months ago

        This is blatantly not true. To sign up for lemmy.ml, you have to provide an email, name, and a couple sentences of why you’re joining. You should stop inventing false statements and spewing them on the internet. It’s not good for anyone. In fact, it makes everyone who dislikes lemmy.ml look like idiots.

    • Mastengwe@lemm.ee
      11·
      9 months ago

      Not at all. There’s nothing good that has .ml at the end of it here. You’re missing nothing.