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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.

Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.


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I was going to comment on a post today, and found out I'd been banned from mop@quokk.au. Apparently it happened awhile ago.

Not much of a reason, no real evidence given. The mod didn't include a screenshot, link, or even quoted text, so I'm not sure which specific interaction led to this. Basically this is just thought policing. Hilarious considering that the community claims to be:

free of the “ML” influence of instances like lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.

Also, even if the accusation is true it doesn't break any community rules:

There is only one mod of mop@quokk.au, so this isn't just a vague/general example. @lumpenproletariat@quokk.au is a PTB.

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[–] MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Looking at the history it seems @Deceptichum@quokk.au banned them for their comments in this thread, not even one of their many shitty comments already on their profile before but their comments in that thread.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yikes. So what you're saying is that a difference in political opinion is justification for retaliatory action. That is fantastically authoritarian.

What exactly was "shitty" about any of those comments?

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why do you have a problem with anarchists banning you from anarchist communities exactly? Do you think you should be able to say what you like wherever you go? Quokk.au isn't a freeze peach instance. They have no obligation to let you visit and shit on the floor.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Why do you have a problem with anarchists banning you from anarchist communities exactly? Do you think you should be able to say what you like wherever you go?

I think that I haven't broken any rules, and that I've essentially been judged under some secret law, and the punitive measure was delivered effectively in secret with no communication or recourse, which is the kind of behavior one expects from fascists and authoritarians.

Basically I think I'm the victim of abject hypocrites. People who claim to be against abuses of authority obviously approve of such abuses when aligned with their personal politics.

It's very telling to me that so many people here are functionally behaving as if the mod were right because they're the mod, which is to say "might makes right".

Quokk.au isn't a freeze peach instance. They have no obligation to let you visit and shit on the floor.

I think that if you're going to build an echo chamber, you should have explicit rules identifying it as such, to the effect of "Only approved ideologies are allowed to be expressed here, and all others are forbidden." That way you at least have to consciously process that you are building an echo chamber, and you put up a warning sign so that reasonable, cooperative and tolerant people will know to stay away.

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 4 points 1 day ago

Basically I think I’m the victim of abject hypocrites.

no you're not. one of the most important foundations of anarchism is the concept of freedom of association. we have decided we no longer wish to associate with you. your own personal freedoms have not been affected by this decision.