astral_avocado @ astral_avocado @lemmynsfw.com

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Incoming tankie defense of state censorship

Millions of Russian ctizens having their internet cut off isn't a big deal?

They also monitor internet communications and you can get your account deleted or a police visit if you post something to critical of the state. That's probably irresistibly attractive to Putin.

In my time working at a hosting provider we would get these very strange requests from the Russian government demanding Russian websites customers had with us be taken down for moral violations. Like a DMCA but for free speech.

Also true if you consider the absolutely massive cost and effort it took China to get where they are with their Great Firewall. From what can be gleaned they also have a huge workforce of people monitoring communications as well in order to keep their internet safe for the state and "sanitized".

Almost like they're literal fascists just like China!

I am not a fan of millions of Russian citizens being in a walled garden of censorship however

Well tbf, he did. Through sheer luck and off the backs of others, and being an abusive boss, but that did happen for the space industry.

If you ever want to leave your insane echo chamber -- and I don't know how the fuck you got into it you deranged lunatic -- you should read "Tombstone" by Yang Jisheng. Millions dead from state enforced famine.

Why don't you move there then? You wouldn't be able to browse nonsense like this lol. Wouldn't need to worry about information you don't like hearing because they would make sure you never hear it through their state controlled internet and media.

Did you hit the off switch on your brain and just ignore every comment there and here?

40s-50s was a wild time

I think we should always care about mass genocide on specific cultural groups, the world cared about the Holocaust, or is that a "who cares" for that one too?

This is doubly true when a fascist regime is doing everything they can to pretend like it's not happening.

Just like I care about police brutality, and the mass Graves in Canadian schools, also because local governments are trying somewhat to cover them up. I also care about the genocide that happened in the 1900s in the Congo.

Isn't it crazy that I can care about human suffering?? Empathy is a wild thing.

😂😂 really hit a nerve huh?

I am going to report to your local prefecture police station that you're accessing western social media full of porn

Fucking dead lmao

Speaking of dullness why isn't there a like, comment or retweet counter? Just started trying to check out Mastodon.

They have 2 million active users supposedly, 10 times bigger than Lemmy.

1989 Tianneman square protests

Doesn't this just mean they'll make their bot accounts under a more organic/random timeline instead of linearly? The only way it seems you identified it is by the linear nature of the signups.

I get that of course, but a lot of people are going to be put off that the main dev is a genocide denier, there's no way around that. I've seen mastodon posts of activists specifically telling people to not use Lemmy for that reason. In fact it's equivalent to the attitude I see around here of people saying we need to silence fascists at all costs. They just see it as a scarlet mark on the whole endeavor.

We need a way to answer that while making people aware Lemmy is designed so that it doesn't matter.

I recognize my post didn't really convey that. I dunno, I'm not terribly charismatic.