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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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This action was taken under an unannounced rule that can label and censor criticism of anyone or anything with "FUD."

You'll find it's only used to protect the rich and powerful, though.

Unable to simply delete the post, the moderators scrubbed comments from anyone who named and shamed CEO James Dolan, but allowed his supporters to remain uncensored.

James Dolan is a thin-skinned billionaire crybaby who runs Madison Square Garden like it’s his own little surveillance state. The fact that he's using facial recognition tech to ban people—not for crimes, not for safety concerns—but for criticizing him is some straight-up dictator energy.........This isn’t just petty. It’s dangerous. It’s the kind of fascist-lite garbage we’ve been warning about for years: once the powerful get their hands on surveillance tools, they will abuse them to silence dissent. Dolan just doesn't care who sees it. He’s too arrogant, too insecure, and too rich to be held accountable.

The madison square garden ceo, james dolan, is the biggest thin-skinned pussy I have ever read about. Someone who band an individual due to a critical remark they made and put on a shirt? Pathetic lol.

Criticism of basically anyone rich or powerful was removed.

Criticism of Tucker Carlson was removed.

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[–] misk@sopuli.xyz -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think Reddit has strong anti witch hunt rules after the whole Boston bomber fiasco. Can’t fault them for going for „blast it from the orbit” approach, they couldn’t even keep Reddit profitable without resorting to hosting porn and you want them to have nuance in moderation.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They also ban criticism of the US government, US billionaires, and Israeli spyware... I sure can fault them for doing this

https://lemm.ee/post/59706303

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I meant they can’t differentiate between them because there’s too many reports to go through probably. Reddit relies on volunteers because it can’t afford to employ enough people to moderate it for real.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

If the moderators aren't capable of handling this amount of work, they should divest themselves from the communities they volunteered for. Especially if their leisure time on Reddit is spent losing arguments to other people on subreddits they run.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Reality can be funny and sad at the same time.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 2 weeks ago

I can see modding Lemmy and mastodon for free bc they can't afford it. Spez should make avocado toast and coffee at home to pay mods.