I may have been a bit hyperbolic calling Germany a 'police state' at the same time not exactly since places where you can be arrested for non-violent speech are not far off from police states. Some people don't believe it's that bad but I've heard horror stories of these laws being used against people the government disagrees with. That has happened and will happen again.

I already got banned for criticizing Germany, I don’t want to get banned for defending them as well! ;)

Unless you're defending or justifying Germany's legislated Zionism that's unlikely. Rule 2 doesn't forbid people from defending Germany it only forbids defending Zionism, Zionist practices, Zionist laws, which can in some cased be thought of as defending Germany. CyberEgg certainly thought so, but he quickly started accusing me of genocide and antisemitism when I pointed out the comment he was banned for so...

They're separate because at the moment there's a lot of people who are intentionally or unintentionally confusing Anti-Zionist movements with antisemitism. Antisemitism is hate speech and bigotry which is banned under rule 1. Zionism and it's corresponding genocide denial is also hate speech but is separated into its own rule for clarity and to also make it clear that polite or "civil" Zionism isn't welcome either. That's where we get the people arguing that 'you should feel hypocritical for supporting Greta Thunberg because [Something Anti-Zionist she said]'.

Lol the Zionists at Feddit.org are trying to blame you because quokk.au decided to defederate over this and they're whining and basically doing the equivalent of accusing a kid of being a "tattle-tale". If they want to defederate quokk.au over this I say let them. Everything in that Censure is true and they absolutely deserve that stain on their otherwise squeaky clean record.

I hope they get more Censures and Hesitations as well as Defederations for their disgusting Zionist apologia.

Context: https://feddit.org/post/12529640

Absolutely PTB all the way.

It seemed like that's what they were doing due to the context of the comment they were responding to, like they're trying to both-sides the argument about the Israel genocide.

It's possible that not all of it is brigading but when 10 or 12 accounts with no content at all or content that's old as heck come to start downvoting I think it's safe to call that an act of brigading, which is my I'm saying there is brigading.

The fact you aren't banned from dbzer0 is proof enough for me, (at least that it isn't the obvious kind) since multiple other people have been banned for brigading and vote manipulation.

That's good, glad to hear it. That wasn't really something I was arguing against though with the OG claim, as I have no doubt that some probably many of the vote manipulation accounts out there are manually operated.

Not even that, just certain communities here which allow AI. They could make an anti-AI community here if it follows all of dbzer0's rules, is good faith and doesn't encourage trolling or aggression towards others.

I've been putting off cleaning my bathroom for way too long now, it's scary in there... 😬

Then why are you on Lemmy's leading AI friendly instance created by the guy who makes the AIhorde? Seems kind of like a conflict of interest...

Because they still think they aren't and want to pretend they aren't, they believe the law is on their side and they don't have it in them to lie to a court and/or falsify evidence that they did do it "clean room" and betray the law which they believe is on their side. Even though it actually isn't and probably never unless people get fed up enough to do what's necessary.