.world powermod Flyingsquid harasses News mod Blackbeard off lemmy (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by Canyon201@lemmy.world to c/fediverselore@lemmy.ca

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After being harassed in multiple discord channels by powermod FlyingSquid the news mod blackbeard has shuttered his account and moved to bluesky.

https://ibb.co/cY44MgF

https://lemmy.world/u/Blackbeard

"The recklessness with which people downvote polite disagreements reminds me of all the worst parts of Reddit, and it proves to me that this isn't the social media savior I'd hoped it would be, and is instead just another echo chamber. I hope eventually lemmy.world (and the fediverse more broadly) can grow out of that, but some of the behavior I've seen on the inside from both mods and admins doesn't really inspire much confidence for that kind of evolution in the short term. "

FlyingSquid is the same mod who has the power to siteban people from lemmy.world

Why does lemmy.world keep having issues with their powermods and admins? Why do powermods get the ability to siteban their enemies from the largest instance?

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[-] Sundial@lemm.ee -1 points 1 week ago

Defamation is not against the rules and sounds like quite a bit of a stretch. No one on Lemmy is capable of defaming anyone even remotely that famous. It's clearly an example of frivolous reporting.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org -2 points 1 week ago

Sure defamation is not against server rules. But it's against the law of atlesst in USA and my home country which makes it very much against server rules.

[-] Sundial@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Again, defamation is a big stretch and the US laws don't matter in Lemmy. .world is hosted in Europe.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Did I only state US laws? No I didn't. My home country would be Germany.

Besides, do ai/web crawler understand that this piece of opinion was just an opinion and not take it as information?

[-] Sundial@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

https://www.carter-ruck.com/law-guides/defamation-and-privacy-law-in-germany/

The guiding principle is: Untrue factual statements are illegal. Expression of opinion is permissible up to the limit of “abusive criticism”.

In contrast expressions of opinion enjoy fundamental constitutional protection and are thus generally admissible.

The injunctive relief (i.e., an interim injunction), which is obtained by a court’s cease and desist order, may stop an unlawful publication that already took place or is imminent. An injunction is of specific practical importance and can provide fast and effective protection from imminent dam-age. The injunctive relief may address both unlawful texts and impermissible photos or film. It is used in the event of written reporting not only to protect a person against false allegations of facts but – in cases of privacy invasion – also against the expression of opinion. The court’s cease and desist order prohibits the publication of illegal content by a media company.

Yeah, not buying it. Relax buddy. A lot worse has been said online. People are allowed to express their opinions.

this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2024

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