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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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Mods go crazy over one weird trick: change "israel" to "zionists".

Apparently it's a bannable offense not to recognize the "state of israel".

The normalization of colonization and genocide runs deep.

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[–] Wren@lemmy.today 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

If you wanted to editorialize headlines you should have posted to a different community or made your own. I see no power tripping here, just upholding a basic rule you were reminded of multiple times. I would have banned you from my news coms, too.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 51 minutes ago) (1 children)

Their policy of only allowing hegemonic news sources and then banning editorializing only serves to reinforce hegemony. It's the default form of "editorializing". It's disinfo.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 1 points 52 minutes ago* (last edited 50 minutes ago) (1 children)

Looks like they would have allowed your news sources if you didn't editorialize the headlines.

I'm no fan of world news, it's part of the reason I made alternative news coms. But your ban had nothing to do with Zionism.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 50 minutes ago

The disinformation term "israel" is completely related to israel. The "rule" that I violated is designed to protect exactly this form of disinfo.

[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wonder how many removals and warnings they had before the ban for rampant editorializing

Oh...

Nah must be your "anti-zionism" not the rules you flagrantly broke.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

So supporting genocide is ok because the rules enforce it? Yeah that's how that place seems.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

YDI. Don't editorialize the headlines by changing them.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

They only allow hegemonic news and they disallow editorializing. This is just "editorializing" in favor of the status quo.

[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mods go crazy over one weird trick: change “israel” to “zionists”.

Rule 1.3:

Title must match the article headline

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah why is that? Whom does that rule serve? It definitely serves "israel" in every headline in the empire.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 4 points 19 hours ago

while there are issues with that comm, "don't edit article titles" is pretty common and standard practice. i'd say you'd be well within your right to contextualize your issues with article titles in the body of posts, but i don't think the mod is being unreasonable with this rule or ruling

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 6 points 22 hours ago

The normalization of colonization and genocide runs deep.

Your first mistake was posting on lemmy.world.

[–] KernelPanic@anarchist.nexus 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

oh yeah, that's Jordan Lund's comm, isn't it? he's a huge fucking zionist and also kinda racist.

[–] CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I dislike him too. However in this case, OP editorialized a fuck ton of post titles which is breaking a rule that many comms have.

[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I dont blame that community for having strict rules. It has to be hell to mod.

I dont think its powertripping to be strict as long as its fair.

That rule is one that could probably be automated which would be ideal.

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 23 hours ago
[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

I don't know but another commentator said it's modded Jordand Lund (alleged racist/zionist).