this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2026
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Unjust laws should never be obeyed.
It's not that simple though. Run an instance that is dedicated to German speakers and not a specific political standpoint. The laws we have to obey are hatespeech laws. The laws don't ban antizionism, they however ban glorification of murdering innocents of a certain ethnicity. Doesn't matter which ethnicity. Some people are just sore they can't voice antizionist critiques without losing themselves in a violent and hateful dream.
Should runs into the problem of what happens if you don't.
If you can get away with disobeying senseless laws, you should. But when you're a very easy target, like an established web server hosted in the country in question, you do have to play some risk-reward calculations in your head to decide if this is the hill you want to die on.
A particularly iconoclastic anarchist might legitimately argue that underage individuals should not be subjected to additional privacy laws when online, as a form of ageism, but they might want to sit down and take a long and hard look at whether that's really what they want their website to have a showdown with the state on, simply within the context of their own ideology.
Don't throw good resources away on losing battles. Be strategic.
Just want to clarify that the last thread the OP posted before being banned was them arguing with a lemmy.ml user that they aren't perpetrating censorship of anti-zionist content, while describing how they censor anti-zionist expression on Feddit.
Why ban?
I also got recently permabanned (reason: Golden Rule #8) from Ye Power Trippin Bastards after I posted Dessalines banning me on .ml despite not having posted anything there in three weeks.
I'm speculating here but I would assume that either the lemmy.ml admins came across the thread and saw their zionist apologia, or the lemmy.ml user snitched on them to ml's admins (either by report or by DM/off-platform). I make no assertions as to which of these are more likely as this is only speculation.
I speculate that their comments apologizing for censorship of anti-zionist sentiment while arguing with a lemmy.ml user was the cause of their ban. It could be something different of course, but it was so close it's very likely. Also they have very little other participation on lemmy.ml (only enough to trigger a community ban from c/memes so it was likely something recent.
Antizionist opinions are allowed on Feddit. However mathemachristian was being toxic, writing inflammatory comments and acting sort of like antiyanks.
If you can't state your opinion without being a bigot, then you shouldn't mention it at all on Feddit.