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this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2023
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That really surprises me considering their the lemmy devs' leftist political beliefs
They're authoritarian leftists, who support Putin. They have more in common with fascists than most people do.
That's the thing with being pro free speech - it means not censoring speech you hate.
Things quickly get complicated when the speech is (potentially) harmful.
This isn't a censorship issue. This is a choice about whether to publicise and promote pedophiles or not. No website has a right to be included in join-lemmy listings.
I didn’t take them to be free speech absolutists, though.
They're as leftist as the "communist" China. Or as "socialist" as the Nazis were. Just because someone calls themselves "communist" or "socialist", doesn't mean it's true. And if you support China, Nazis, Soviet Union or its successor Russia, you're not a communist or socialist.