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[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

You know we’re talking about ICE, right?

No, we're talking about blocking an instance because it "accepted" an ICE account.

the literal evil paramilitary squad of a crumbling empire. The ones who kidnap children, the ones who break into homes and disappear people.

I know full well who they are. But they're still - like it or not - a government organisation. There should be tools to help moderation in such situations. Like, if you have your average right-wing nutjob lying non-stop, flag the account, make it only publish posts after a review, or something.

I could understand your being pissed off if it was some fucker getting cancelled for something unimportant.

But people died, people died. This ain’t the same thing.

OK, so what do you propose? Say, Johnny Regular signs up in .blahaj.zone. Then goes insane and starts a mass shooting, killing a hundred people.

Do we blow up the instance, blacklist everybody on it because "people died" and "nobody wants to be the instance with ~~ICE~~ Johnny Regular on it"?

And no, it literally does. You don’t want to turn into a nazi bar, you don’t let Nazis in. If the owners let Nazis in, you don’t go to the bar and you tell every other fucker to do the same.

So add a mechanism to review accounts before they're created, especially for gov users, instead of nuking an instance because one got let in.

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

a government organisation

Ain't my government (British), and blahaj.zone is hosted in Netherlands

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Nobody is talking about "one got let in" though, they're talking about officially opening the door wide open, like how Bsky did.

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Mate, this discussion is in response to this comment.

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 hours ago

We obviously got off that topic ages ago