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  • Clutter@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    I was banned from lemmy.ml outright for asking if someone that was responding to me with obvious Russian propaganda was a Russian, because he was spouting obvious russian propaganda, I thought maybe he was and was being fed that propaganda.

    I was banned for being racist by asking if someone was a Russian. Which is a nationality not a race.

    And yes, I was also pointing to facts that where contradicting their made up stories about Nato etc.

    It seems to me that lemmy.ml is a Russian misinformation outlet.

    • pet1t@piefed.social
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      2 months ago

      Barging in on this week old thread. Had Dessalines also accusing me of “racism” after commenting “found the russian” on what was obvious pro-russian propaganda.

      anyway, fuck the tankie developers. fuck Dessalines.

      edit: typo

      • Bad_Ideas_In_Bulk@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        It depends on what the software does, and how well reviewed it was. A lot of cases I’d say yes, but if it was (as an example) a personal therapist app I’d be pretty suspicious of it.

      • Clutter@sh.itjust.works
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        3 months ago

        That, my friend, is actually an awesome question. I have the same question about Harry Potter and the biggot know as Rowling, or Hugh Jackman and his Trump and Murdock friends, Michael Jackson and pedophilia, Eric Clapton and his racism, etc, etc.

        Can we / should we, separate the art from the creator?

        I think we must. Not a single person alive is “purely good or purely evil” in all things (?)…

        We do not turn a blind eye, we can acknowledge that Hitler was a human being and also evil. Same with Netanyahu and Trump. I will acknowledge they probably did some good in this world (perhaps only privately for their own people), but that does not mean we look away from their evil and vilify them for it.

    • Hanrahan@slrpnk.net
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      3 months ago

      It seems to me that lemmy.ml is a Russian misinformation outlet.

      yes but they have good communities like their Linux and privacy communities etc, i ignore their weird pro fascist stance

      • Clutter@sh.itjust.works
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        3 months ago

        No. We have a saying: When you are at a table with 10 people, and one of them is a Nazi. There are 10 Nazi’s at that table.

        There is no “neutral” in this case.