I posted this in Privacy, and News.ml
They were both removed for “off topic” and “lemmy rules”. Good times. It’s fun to see them literally censor news reports about censorship in China.
This, by the way, is actual real freedom of speech censorship. It’s censoring anyone that talks about the government.
Also, i love that they banned an .ee account for six months. That’s just extra special sauce.
Do you mean the Privacy community on lemmy.ml?
I got temporarily banned there after criticizing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and a moderator proceeded to remove most of my comments from the thread. Only the ones with >0 upvotes, interestingly. I give the ML mods brownie points for technique, at least.
(Regarding if “off topic” is PTB: I’m not sure if AI generation specifically regarding Tianmen square is on-topic for privacy, but I imagine it would be at home in communities discussing technology, AI, even free speech. But let’s be fair, it’s definitely pretense for an unwarranted instance-wide ban. Far more PTB than BPR.)
Yeah, both ml comms.
You’re losing me with the abbreviations though.
You’ll find most of those in the sidebar (except AI, but I figure you’re good with that one)
Browsing on app, this gives what?
Some acronyms you might see.
PTB - Power-Tripping Bastard: The commenter agrees with you this was a PTB mod.
YDI - You Deserved It: The commenter thinks you deserved that mod action.
YDM new - You Deserved More: The commenter thinks you got off too lightly.
BPR - Bait-Provoked Reaction: That mod probably overreacted in charged situation, or due to being baited.
CLM - Clueless Mod: The mod probably just doesn’t understand how their software works.