If I understand it right, the moderator of the mastodon.world instance has blocked several posts by Hasnain Kazim, as Kazim reported yesterday on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/661473263/posts/10163657720033264/

Kazim is a quite famous and successful book author in Germany and something between left, conservative and liberal. He was journalist for the most important German weekly news magazine Spiegel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasnain_Kazim?wprov=sfla1

Canceling his posts is stupid and certainly completely exaggerated. To me from the external perspective it seems that the moderator is abusing his power. He is damaging free and respectful discussion. Furthermore, when a famous person like Kazim reports those experiences to his broad audience, who do not understand the functioning of the fediverse, the moderator also damages Mastodon in general significantly, it seems to me.

What do you think about this case ?

  • Absurdly Stupid @lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    15 hours ago

    No.

    The majority of voters are centrists, if we were just ashamed of being right wing a Democrat could never win office, now could they? You require centrist votes to win any election

    (major parties are only 30% of voters each, the other 40% are not secretly right wing)

    • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
      2·
      15 hours ago

      ~11% of American voters are more on the extreme left, another ~11% more on the extreme right-wing, leaving a solid 4/5ths in the middle.

      Which is why these terms aren’t useful in a global forum like the Fediverse - when USA Democrats are simultaneously both left and also right, depending on the recipient’s POV, then the term ceases to convey any (non-ambiguous) meaning.

      Or we could use the terms properly in relation to the country of origin… except as the person you replied to shows, people refuse to use that level of consideration that their preferred way is not the only lens through which to view the entire world.

      Honestly, spending time on Lemmy has made me less left-leaning than I used to be. All the hate and vitriol and especially disinformation spreading has really turned me away from it all. Especially when I see how it is identical to the right-wing POVs.

      Extremists on both sides: death to everyone who holds viewpoints different from my own!!

      • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        9 hours ago

        Saying you have dropped your support for things like fair wages and human rights because you can’t bother to learn to distinguish how that’s different from the right-wing has made me more right-wing, is not the win you seem to think it is.

      • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        12 hours ago

        Honestly, spending time on Lemmy has made me less left-leaning than I used to be. All the hate and vitriol and especially disinformation spreading has really turned me away from it all. Especially when I see how it is identical to the right-wing POVs.

        “I don’t support human rights as strongly as I once did because I don’t like how everyone acts on the internet” is a weird take. I’ve always thought it was.

        • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
          2·
          5 hours ago

          Thank you for proving my point.

          I am very likely to be killed myself, though whether by the Left or Right is anyone’s guess at this point.

          The two are not so dissimilar after all - since the right claims to be correct while the left says that bOtH sIdEs SaMe, hence don’t bother voting, which amounts to the same outcome.

          In fairness, I should have said that the “left” and right are similar, since the left is more like “genocide is always wrong” whereas the “left” is like “genocide is only wrong when done by oThEr SiDe BaD” (i.e. Russia, China, and North Korea can do no wrong).