this post was submitted on 22 May 2025
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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- Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
- What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
- Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
- Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
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- PTB - Power-Tripping Bastard: The commenter agrees with you this was a PTB mod.
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- YDM new - You Deserved More: The commenter thinks you got off too lightly.
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- CLM - Clueless Mod: The mod probably just doesn't understand how their software works.
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I'd like to disagree with you. The whole purpose (or at least the stated purpose, but that would mean that the creator lied) was to create a community "free of censorship"
To lure people into the community with the promise of a community "free of censorship" and then censor in the opposite way is just wrong.
I don't think that was the intent at all. What the mod of the new Europe community objects to is the censorship by feddit mods of anything critical of Israel or critical of Zionism.
Fact is we aren't a "free speech" instance and have never claimed to be. The community rules are in fact very clear that Zionism isn't allowed (see below). Anyone who want to go whine about how the leftists at dbzer0 are all terrorist Hamas supporters because we want to stop Israel from starving children to death can go join the circle jerk over at feddit I guess.
Yes I made it very clear and upfront that Zionist apologia is not allowed, I never said or claimed it was a free speech community or that there wouldn't be censorship. The fact that this thread was swarmed with sockpuppet trolls attacking me and the community just further proves I'm on the right path, and I will continue to issue bans to people acting like Zionist trolls or apologists.
If you review most recent threads here, you will notice that we got some shill op underway.
While I hate censorship, in this case we are facing bad faith actors using throw away accounts. They are not here for discussion, this is retaliation for feddit.org europe community being exposed for being genocide enablers and apologists of israel and zionists.