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.
Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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.
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Relevant comms
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.
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.
The disinformation term "israel" is completely related to israel. The "rule" that I violated is designed to protect exactly this form of disinfo.
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.
So supporting genocide is ok because the rules enforce it? Yeah that's how that place seems.
YDI. Don't editorialize the headlines by changing them.
They only allow hegemonic news and they disallow editorializing. This is just "editorializing" in favor of the status quo.
Mods go crazy over one weird trick: change “israel” to “zionists”.
Rule 1.3:
Title must match the article headline
Yeah why is that? Whom does that rule serve? It definitely serves "israel" in every headline in the empire.
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
The normalization of colonization and genocide runs deep.
Your first mistake was posting on lemmy.world.
oh yeah, that's Jordan Lund's comm, isn't it? he's a huge fucking zionist and also kinda racist.
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.
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.
YDI
What's the mod's name?
I don't know but another commentator said it's modded Jordand Lund (alleged racist/zionist).