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Got banned as a "fascist sympathizer" from games@hexbear.net for discussing the Ukrainian perspective of the STALKER developers who made changes to the game trilogy (web.archive.org)

submitted 7 months ago by Rose@lemmy.zip to c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/39086280

My first months on Lemmy were spent on Lemmy.world, which was the biggest instance at the time. I had no experience with Hexbear because .world had defederated that instance. I sometimes saw it being described as a "tankie" instance, but it was nothing specific.

After I moved to .zip, I came across !games@hexbear.net, which seemed to be free from anything overtly political and reminded me of r/Gamingcirclejerk, so I subscribed to it and occasionally made comments related to gaming.

Today I made multiple comments to a post about an article on the STALKER game developers having removed the Soviet symbols and the Russian audio in the remastered edition of the game. I would argue that in the thread, there were no comments from me that could be construed by a reasonable person as defensive of Nazism, fascism, or even hinting at it. For example, in one of the comments, I linked a Ukrainian law that prohibits the use of Nazi symbols, though I highly advise looking through all my ten comments as to avoid any misunderstanding or false impressions.

Conversely, one comment posted by another user dismissed Holodomor as Nazi propaganda, which I reported, but a moderator of that community just ended up calling me out for that and taking no action, followed by them banning me.

The thread containing all of my untouched posts is still available via lemmy.zip. My comments are also available for viewing via my user page. They are not available on hexbear due to the ban.

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[–] sudneo@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yep, i have mentioned that here coincidentally. But as you probably know the region where this happens has a special status in Italy (it's not the only one) and German is officially equal to Italian there (despite Italian being the ultimately legal language for disputes etc.). French is also an official language of Valle d'Aosta, I think.

As far as I am aware, anywhere else in Italy (where German is indeed not an official language) there are no (public) schools that teach in German. For example, despite almost a million of Romanian-speakers in Italy, nobody has a right of education in Romanian in Italy. This pretty much sums up my point, no state offers public education in a language different from their official language(s).

[–] Goten@piefed.social 1 points 7 months ago

true. without bombs against infrastructure(!) our rights would still be limited. im not saying that bombs are the only option, but very effective.