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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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Comparisons are not accusations (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 day ago by 4am@lemmy.zip to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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A comparison isn’t an accusation of literally being a Nazi, and the user being scolded was the one who brought it up.

Person did some Nazi-like shit, got called out. I don’t see an issue here.

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[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 day ago (16 children)

While I think Tesseract's censorship went too far, comparing it to Nazi censorship is ludicrous.

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[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

So do you think censoring communities the Nazis censored is politically neutral and good?

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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 child)

It doesn't have to be good or neutral to be a different thing that doesn't merit the same response.

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[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

you're right, it's not nazism. what it is is criminal. a secret backdoor that allowed someone to take control over the users of an unrelated website? that's the kind of thing that gets you prison time in the US.

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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 23 hours ago

If this level of manipulative dishonesty and user hostile behavior gets you prison time, I look forward to seeing the likes of zuckerberg and spez behind bars.

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