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First vaccine to fully immunize against malaria builds on pandemic-driven RNA tech (academictimes.com)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (2 children)

From Lemmy's code of conduct:

"Respect that people have differences of opinion and that every design or implementation choice carries a trade-off and numerous costs. There is seldom a right answer."

Apparently this doesn't apply for the Admin.

"We will exclude you from interaction if you insult, demean or harass anyone. That is not welcome behavior. We interpret the term “harassment” as including the definition in the Citizen Code of Conduct; if you have any lack of clarity about what might be included in that concept, please read their definition. In particular, we don’t tolerate behavior that excludes people in socially marginalized groups."

So calling someone a "conspiracy nerd" isn't considered a insult?

I'm not saying that I agree or disagree with @disrooter but this kind of censorship is very dangerous. If you don't agree to someone, isn't that why the down-vote button is there?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

You can spread anti vaxx conspiracy theories elsewhere, we don't allow them here. Two people pm'd me about disroots comment in an hour.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 years ago

As I said in my other reply, you and whoever told me had to ask for clarification first.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 years ago

Yeah this is censorship but I disagree with a point: I think the downvote button is for not-relevant comments, not the one we disagree with.

Even controversial comments should be upvoted if relevant. Otherwise the votes will reward demagogy and kill the debate, and in the long term will make ideas stagnate or regress and creating more extremism.