Heise blacklisted
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Why this is bullshit
This is not a normal removal message. Most of this removal reason is from a template, the portion including "Now blacklisted" was manually added and has never been used before.
Heise is based in Germany, where the best privacy laws (the GDPR) are enforced strictly. If this site is blacklisted, then any site can be blacklisted.
"Please link to a credible source" is part of the original community rules, and maybe the moderator who edited the message forgot to remove it, because Heise is credible.
US border security questions are suppressed
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![Traveling into the US with an iphone: question about border security [question tag] ....... So I've read that you should delete any apps that may have anti-Trump content (social media, WhatsApp, etc.), but even if you factory reset your phone, all the phone messages are still there, right? ........ Is there a way to save text messages in the cloud and have them NOT on your phone (and restore them later)? ......... Maybe just traveling with a burner phone is the only way. ......... I just saw two stories of American citizens being detained at airports and ICE searching their phones for anti-Trump stuff.](https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/cb9dd0ff-6d3e-4781-8187-91fa02950c49.png)
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Why it's bullshit
Their post is based on legitimate concerns from legitimate news sites. There is no FUD here, there is no attack on any "privacy mainstay" unless the moderators believe the US surveillance apparatus needs to be protected by them.
And if we needed more evidence the moderators are protecting the DHS, they also removed this comment from the thread's OP:
Bonus: mods censor a guide to safe border crossing
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Why this is bullshit
No rules were broken. Moderator carrotcypher cannot even be assed to fabricate one. (Why not just blacklist The Guardian too?)
At this point in time we can probably consider the vast majority of Reddit mods as power tripping, with the small minority looking for exits like [email protected]
Maybe crosspost this to [email protected] to keep track?
I find the moderation on r/privacy especially pernicious because the moderator creating and enforcing these rules also has footing on the Fediverse - they moderate the FOSStodon server.
Not really a problem. Unlike Reddit, no instance is required to federate with them, and any user can block them individually. On top of that, if users don't like how their instance is managed or moderated, they can leave for another one that is (or even self-host).
It's why we have multiple Privacy communities on Lemmy. No one person can lay claim to a topic or hold users hostage. There's always an alternative.
So long as they're upholding Fediverse conduct codes, I don't have a problem with them having a foot or their entire body here.
Based on their stances against various minorities, and their constant activity on Reddit defending Elon Musk, I don't think they uphold the standards FOSStodon says they triumph. And I don't think the administrators of that site are aware of it.
But that's a post for a different time.
A couple notes for later though:
Here's the same moderator on r/Mastodon, which they moderate, complaining about people who don't like Elon Musk.
Here is the moderator endorsing a law that forces teachers uncloset transgender children
Here is the moderator defending the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil
Doesn't sound too great. There are, unfortunately, Conservatives on the Fediverse who think that they deserve to be here, with their dangerous, bigoted views, alongside the rest of us.
Good to stay watchful and not pretend like they can't influence the Fediverse.
Right, and they have the capability to create and moderate their own servers however they see fit. I just don't think it's appropriate for them to moderate servers that take a reasonable stance against bigotry.
For example, here is the FOSStodon page about their moderators:
It then goes on to list carrotcypher as a moderator.
This is especially concerning because carrotcypher has previously been more covert about their opinions and moderation decisions until approximately January this year.
You can always message the instance admin. Seems like you have some receipts, so at the least, they'll have some data points they can use as they deem appropriate.
Damn
It's fine, they don't moderate any of [email protected] or [email protected]
The ml servers should be avoid though since ml has many problems with censorship, power-tripping, and pushing an agenda.