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Which is particularly ironic when they go HURR DURR .ml HURR DURR TANKIE AUTHORITARIAN HURR DURR OPPOSING OPINIONS NOT ALLOWED.
Other than the tankie part what do you do differently?
Liberal spaces live and die on free speech theatre. They always have to pretend they're protecting free speech and allowing open debate. Being perceived as "authoritarian" is their kryptonite, because authoritarianism is the one thing they claim to oppose above all else.
Communist spaces will unapologetically hit you with the ban hammer for defending imperialism, fascism, capitalism, bigotry, etc. and I respect that.
It's the general problem of defining yourself as being against something and not actually being for anything.
on .ml the bans tend do also tend to be temp ones, unless someone's seriously harassing. so like people will be complaining about the 1984 censorship regime here but then if you look at their modlog more often than not they got a slap on the wrist for insulting people or doing the laziest anticommunism ever put into text. often both.
And the really angry ones tend to be banned for some flavor of bigotry.
Yep, agreed!
I wonder what happens on .ml when you voice some alternative opinions... π€
It's depend of the "alternative opinion". Factually wrong get downvote and length response, different opinion just length response, regurgitate propaganda get comment removed, "I'm right because I'm white" is ban.
This is just the nazi "I was banned just for having a differing opinion!"
Like yeah man, don't support genocide, don't carry water for genocidaires, most people find it very easy, but the ones who find it hard seemingly can't stop whining about it.