"And this is the part people keep pretending not to understand: when this mentality is given real power, it doesn’t stop at forum bans. The same logic, silence first, justify later; dissent equals danger, is textbook authoritarianism. Historically, that mindset doesn’t just delete posts. It ends with people being hauled away, imprisoned, or shot in the head “to keep the peace.” If that makes people uncomfortable, good. It should."
No source or c/slop because they moderate a few communities on their instance.
Their reaction to a temp ban for posting AI slop they didn't watch themselves. I then got this response to asking which specific Lemmy mod is going to shoot them in the head if they post more AI slop:
You are perfectly demonstrating how authoritarian habits survive by being trivialized at the stage where they’re still “just a timeout,” and if you genuinely believe people wouldn’t kill each other over disagreement the moment consequences disappear, then you must have an extraordinarily optimistic view of human nature.
I cannot even. 
