Yes, I’ve had several posts that humanize Palestinians removed near the start of the conflict on Lemmy.World, though things have improved there. I’ve never seen censorship of Gaza reporting here at BeeHaw; I have a lot of admiration for @alyaza@beehaw.org who has beaten me to the post several times.
I’m not the one you were replying to and haven’t read the comments you referenced but couldn’t let this stand unchallenged:
It’s not censorship when they’re removing posts by both sides.
Yes it is censorship, it could be censorship with reduced bias, it might even be appropriate censorship. But it is literally censorship to censor speech.
If you read who I was responding to, they are asserting that this is political censorship of pro-Israel content. It may be censorship, but not towards a certain political viewpoint, just towards assholes.
Too many posts are removed if they’re critical of Israel. I hope this post survives for discussion.
Yes, I’ve had several posts that humanize Palestinians removed near the start of the conflict on Lemmy.World, though things have improved there. I’ve never seen censorship of Gaza reporting here at BeeHaw; I have a lot of admiration for @alyaza@beehaw.org who has beaten me to the post several times.
According to the modlog, posts that are not negative towards Israel have been removed. There is definitely censorship here.
Got any examples?
https://beehaw.org/modlog/8
Several ten days ago alone.
The top one on that list is a comment condemning Israel, and the mods removed it. Several others, too.
It’s not censorship when they’re removing posts by both sides.
It mostly looks like the same 2-3 trolls posting inflammatory content that is getting removed.
I’m not the one you were replying to and haven’t read the comments you referenced but couldn’t let this stand unchallenged:
Yes it is censorship, it could be censorship with reduced bias, it might even be appropriate censorship. But it is literally censorship to censor speech.
If you read who I was responding to, they are asserting that this is political censorship of pro-Israel content. It may be censorship, but not towards a certain political viewpoint, just towards assholes.
Lemmy.world hasn’t improved as far as I can tell. Or maybe their bias was even worse before I noticed.
In any event, their entire instance is now blocked from my feeds, so I won’t have to deal with them.