• debaser@lemm.ee
    411·
    3 days ago

    They’ve also been banning accounts for liking comments about Green Mario doing nothing wrong. It’s about the closest thing to thought crime I’ve ever seen. (PS Green Mario did nothing wrong)

    • Gloomy@mander.xyz
      22·
      3 days ago

      I don’t mean this as an attack at all, but isn’t calling Luigi “Green Mario” a way to comply with the wired reddit cencorship?

      We are on Lemmy, you can speak freely here.

      Or did something just go over my head?

        • JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish
          10·
          3 days ago

          It’s actually pretty likely he’s not the guy. While they have a picture of him from a nearby hostel, the picture from cctv at the scene doesn’t match quite so well.

      • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        3 days ago

        Whether or not they were being ironic, we HAVE to stop capitulating to corporations deciding how we speak and what we can and can’t talk about. They successfully turned our own social messaging into a justification to block out conversations about issues that are actually affecting us.

        (No, to the chud about to cry about being censored for spreading misinformation about vaccines, that doesn’t go against corporate incentives, that goes against reason and knowledge, there’s a difference and if you can’t tell, you will when you get older.)

      • arrow74@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        I made a comment self censored to “Mario bros” on reddit. Got a permanent ban. They’re going scorched earth on anything moderately inflammatory

  • andros_rex@lemmy.world
    150·
    4 days ago

    This is the same kind of thing the 19 year old high school dropout with two kids he doesn’t have custody of posts on Facebook. Like “the devil whispered in my ear you can’t handle the storm and i said i am storm”

  • bampop@lemmy.world
    462·
    4 days ago

    Ironically, what Musk posted is perfectly acceptable ( in and of itself, ignoring the context of the person who is saying it ) since violence or the threat of violence is sometimes necessary to prevent things getting worse. For example, “Ukraine should be helped to defend itself” is a call for violence.

    Which is why it’s such a bullshit excuse to ban speech for that reason alone. I got banned for suggesting France might help out the USA by shipping over any surplus guillotines. I’m sure they would have no issue at all if I were enthusiastically advocating genocide. Never mind, I needed a push to make the move to Lemmy ; )

    • freely1333@reddthat.comEnglish
      12·
      4 days ago

      The line is state sponsored violence, generally. Likely with a little bias on what state is on the giving and receiving ends of said violence. Thats the rule at least so far as I can tell, at least.

      • bampop@lemmy.world
        41·
        4 days ago

        I think you’re right, but that’s even more concerning. A fully fascist take on what is acceptable speech.

    • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      My ban from reddit was 100% related to calling for the arrest and judicial execution of netenyahu. Which is not an unreasonable thing to say given that he is nothing more than a modern Hitler.

      I will take it back. Netenyahu should not be tried at all in any court. But simply tied up, have the charges read against him, and promptly shot through the head at point blank range.

    • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
      16·
      3 days ago

      Eastern ex-ukraine should be helped to defend itself from fascist Banderites.
      That gets you banned from Reddit, or some mild criticism of the Palestinian genocide.
      The vile calls for violence and racist Russophobia on there could stay on there.
      Not a peep from the hypocrites then.
      Now that the other part of the US regime controls Reddit they suddenly wake up and care about free speech.
      Why am I not surprised?

    • roguesignal@lemm.eeEnglish
      16·
      3 days ago

      My 15 year old account got banned last week, too. On one hand it kinda sucks, but on the other hand it feels good to get out of that site’s echo chamber. Reddit is really circling the drain.

    • tacobellhop@midwest.socialEnglish
      12·
      3 days ago

      Here’s my new thing.

      All the people with critical thinking skills are leaving in droves. Leaving a massive bot farm authoritarian echo chamber in its wake.

      As far as they’re concerned we’re the problem and it solved itself.

    • Asafum@feddit.nl
      12·
      4 days ago

      It’s good to be the king.

      He doesn’t have to be the one actually inflicting the violence on others, but with his power and influence he is capable of great violence by making others carry it out in his name.

      Fucking billionaires… :/

  • merdaverse@lemmy.world
    14·
    3 days ago

    Violence is a double edged sword. It can easily swing the other way. Elon might be misjudging how that sword is balanced.

  • RizzoTheSmall@lemm.eeEnglish
    69·
    4 days ago

    What a great fat wet lettuce of a human. He’s only capable of paying other people to do his dirty work.

    • davesmith@feddit.ukEnglish
      23·
      4 days ago

      No.

      Elon’s mother stopped him having that cage fight with Mark Zuckerberg because of his bad back. That wasn’t his fault.

    • BossDj@lemm.ee
      2·
      4 days ago

      He can’t even play games of simulated violence without someone playing his character for him

  • dantheclamman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    3 days ago

    People should be leaving Reddit. They are poor stewards of our content for innumerable reasons. Go back to forums. Go to Lemmy. The key thing is that we should not have centralized arbiters of our discussions online.

    • Nangijala@feddit.dk
      4·
      3 days ago

      Indeed. I deleted my reddit account recently. I like it better here anyways. The pace is slower and the people seem more reasonable here too. My stress levels have decreased significantly since I left Meta and Reddit and that is at once wonderful and scary. Social media is a cancer.

  • BmeBenji@lemm.ee
    131·
    3 days ago

    “I’m peaceful because I am capable of kicking your ass” has true mall ninja energy.

    “you studied humanity [and made friends] while I studied the blade”

    • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      3 days ago

      I remember reading self-defense writings by Marc MacYoung (who is a fascist mind you, but he is very good at martial arts and understanding criminal dynamics) and the first ever time I heard the ‘better a monster who can control it, than a sheep who is not capable of violence’ or that effect, and he ripped that entire saying a new one. He said how once the violent beast in someone is built up, it simply won’t be easy to control and will fuck you up. There is simply no way around it. Criminals, abusers, and assholes whom people want nothing to do with and people who spend countless nights in jail for petty shit are all the actual ‘warriors in a garden’ come to life.

      Also the whole thing is shit. During ww1 and ww2 the US had a pathetic military at the start, but when the war got going they still outfought the Nazis and Imperial Japanese who were fully and completely into the whole permanent warrior mentality.