To test this hypothesis, Gallup, Burch, Zappieri, Parvez, Stockwell, and Davis (2003) simulated sexual encounters using artificial models and measured the magnitude of artificial semen displacement as a function of phallus configuration, depth of thrusting, and semen viscosity.
I mean, "Let's not educate people so they're ignorant to how they're being exploited, and we don't want to have to beat them down" is certainly a take. I guess maybe you can see Cypher as the people's hero if you squint hard enough.
But in my opinion, the more people who understand the shortcomings of a system, the more pressure there will be to fix it, and that's how progress happens. It's slow and sometimes bloody, but the alternative is even worse.
On the other hand, I think the rise of fascism in the US is directly connected to its growing anti-intellectualism and cuts to education. Overall it's a good thing to have an overeducated population.
Not them, but I expect them to do the most cursory of investigation: looking with their eyes and saying what happened unambiguously, and without weaseling about it:
"Elon musk gives Nazi salute at Trump's inauguration."
is what the headline should be, because that's what happened.
Instead they're playing this "we're not saying he gave a Nazi salute, but others have said he did" bullshit games.
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
Killing members of the group;
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
While other people have answered your direct question, I think it's important to think about it from a slightly more abstract POV as well.
A lot of people left reddit because they were unhappy with being forced off of 3rd party apps. Lemmy provides a fundamentally different (from reddit) mechanism to protect against that sort of centralised overreach: federation. It's also one of the unique qualities which differentiates us from reddit.
If any instance becomes the de facto standard, as lemmy.world is dangerously close to being, it compromises the strength of having federated communities.
It's in all users best interest to avoid centralisation tendencies, and most people would be better suited spending a little time to consider which instance they are best aligned with, and moving to that instance instead of just staying with the most popular instance.
I think what brother's me most here is the entitlement and contempt displayed for your own community. You were told repeatedly that nobody wanted this, and yet you doubled down saying "We know what's best". You acted like the community belongs to the moderation team, and they can do with it as they please.
It took a mass exodus for you to finally seriously consider other viewpoints. I don't think that's an acceptable way for any moderation team to treat their own community.
That's not something that can simply be fixed by an apology. It's something that would require some significant introspection.
Hmm.