Disclaimer: Fuck the rich and please consider reading 1 paragraph before you go to comments to explain how I am a bootlicker. Thank you ٩(•͈ ꇴ •͈)و ̑̑❀

For context, I generally report all calls to violence, no matter who the “victim” is, whether they are a public figure or an anonymous user. I didn’t even register that the person I was “defending” was rich—I’m just aware that calls to violence are against most instances’ terms of service (due to legal threats). Genuinely sorry seahorse! I wish you just had something in your instance sidebar or even spoke to me instead of jumping to ban and “lib” insults!

Unverifiable information you will have to take my word for (per community rules)

Apologized to seahorse and got:

My own personal curiosities only adjacently related

Correct me if I’m wrong, isn’t this a bit of an abuse of federation? This is the same admin that pulled the move with the doxxing of Nick Fuentes. By banning users for reporting content that may violate our local instance rules, seahorse is making our local instances harder to moderate for our admins. (Honestly I respect the commitment to the running a very open and uncensored instance, but until Lemmy has the option to only report to local admins versus local & federated authorities, this may not be the best strategy?)

Anyway, this is pretty interesting. I’m honestly not too pressed about this (mostly I will miss !theonion@midwest.social) and curious what yall think. :)

  • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
    93·
    19 days ago

    OP has demonstrated the position that calling for this punishment is morally wrong.

    False. If you reread my post (or read it for the first time, perhaps) you will find three key statements:

    • I generally report all calls to violence, no matter who the “victim” is.
    • I didn’t even register that the person I was “defending” was rich.
    • I have no interest in protecting the rich—just keeping the instances I know and love up and running.

    Depending on an instance’s local government situation, instance admins can be held liable by law for hosting certain content, and therefore many instances have rules against calls to violence. I don’t even agree it’s a morally good or optimal system, it’s just how it is.

    Out of this understanding, along with reporting the much more common slurs, racism, sexism, etc. I occasionally also report calls to violence. This is not out of any political interest; I am just helping admins keep house.

    Anyway, thank you for your suuuuuper good-faith reading of my post, and I trust you’ll do the same for this comment. /s

    • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
      47·
      19 days ago

      You might want to look up the definition of corporal punishment, because you are absolutely opposing corporal punishment when you report a post that advocates violence as punishment.

      Being opposed to corporal punishment by default is not a bad thing.

      • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
        63·
        19 days ago

        goodness :( please read the post. admins. can get. in legal. trouble. for. calls. to. violence.

        the report is just me giving them the heads up that the content exists, nothing more, not me trying to censor others, not some political statement, and certainly not a moral one.

        admins are free to ignore my reports. in fact, i hope they do, and perhaps let me know when and where they are not necessary.

        i have read your post. PLEASE read mine. 😭

        • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
          212·
          19 days ago

          Sorry I couldn’t keep up with what seems like a constantly changing basis for reporting.