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If I understand it right, the moderator of the mastodon.world instance has blocked several posts by Hasnain Kazim, as Kazim reported yesterday on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/661473263/posts/10163657720033264/

Kazim is a quite famous and successful book author in Germany and something between left, conservative and liberal. He was journalist for the most important German weekly news magazine Spiegel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasnain_Kazim?wprov=sfla1

Canceling his posts is stupid and certainly completely exaggerated. To me from the external perspective it seems that the moderator is abusing his power. He is damaging free and respectful discussion. Furthermore, when a famous person like Kazim reports those experiences to his broad audience, who do not understand the functioning of the fediverse, the moderator also damages Mastodon in general significantly, it seems to me.

What do you think about this case ?

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[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

It's not misinformation if it is true but you don't like the implications. You can argue that it is not valid to draw conclusions about the attitudes of people in the world based only on those people (or bots) leaving comments on news articles. But it's not misinformation to say that's what you saw or that it concerns you if it is actually true.

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It’s not misinformation if it is true

And if my grandmother had wheels she could be a bike.

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Just curious if you've surveyed comments in Arabic in international media articles to determine their sentiment or you just know it can't be true that they celebrated murders.

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

And have you compared any such statements to comments made on any news website in English in the US? Because you get a shitload of stupid stuff there that has little bearing on anything whatsoever.

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Do you think mods would remove a post for pointing out depraved english comments?