The administration of lemmy.ml routinely abuses its rule 1 anti-bigotry policy to conduct political censorship, deleting documented facts regarding the ukraine invasion, holodomor, and xinjiang abuses under false pretexts of imperialist propaganda, misinformation, and nazism while leaving pro-Kremlin talking points untouched.

Verifiable public moderation logs prove this systemic shielding of state propaganda, down to moderators inverting standard geopolitical context, such as noting that fringe extremist units do not make an entire democratic nation fascist, to ban dissenters under the explicit excuse of being a Nazi.

https://lemmy.ml/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=25800386 and https://lemmy.world/modlog/446?page=1&actionType=All&userId=20355358.

The Europe community moderator (https://lemmy.world/u/geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml), who focuses exclusively on criticizing the West and never Russia or China, banned me as a Nazi.

I decided to block the lemmy.ml instance entirely to avoid any further interaction.

I see that there are dozens of relevant posts; you can find the relevant report posts here

Log screenshots

  • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
    01·
    19 days ago

    In large part that is what the word “tankie” means - denial of reality, instead substituting their own, which can only be done inside of a controlled echo chamber. Tankie is no way is synonymous with Communist.

    Think MAGA but on the left - it’s otherwise identical in terms of behaviors, merely different talking points.

    You may find this illustrative:

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      • Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish
        11·
        18 days ago

        Here let me help

                    Whatever 
            the fuck
         tankies are
      -------● doing
     /
    /            ● Far
    \           /Right
     \         /
 ●----●Center●/
Far
Left™
        • SalmiakDragon@feddit.nuEnglish
          0·
          18 days ago

          Thanks. I still have no idea what I’m looking at though. A left-right scale of some kind - is it just randomly drawn lines in the classic political compass?

          • starik@lemmy.todayEnglish
            1·
            18 days ago

            It is labeled “stethoscope theory” and the image is just regular horseshoe theory, but with “far left” replaced by Tankies and moved to its own special branch that continues off to the left instead of circling back around.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      01·
      18 days ago

      It’s pro-authoritarian. That means this control is not really a contradiction. They say they’re leftist, but I think it’d be hard to actually justify that based on the groups they support. Russia isn’t leftist. The USSR may have been, but it’s long gone. Russia is anti-LGBT+ and doesn’t protect workers. It’s an oligarchy.

      There are only two consistent things they follow. They’re pro-authoritarian and anti-west.