https://lemmy.world/post/22802143
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(Context: lemmy.world/c/support post)
Title: Moderation not keeping up with influx of violent rhetoric following the assassination of the UHC CEO.
I am seeing a huge increase in posts and comments that incite violence, make threats of violence against specific people, or that celebrate real-world instances of violence and murder. There are hundreds of comments on this instance posted over the past day that brazenly violate rule #1 “We do not tolerate threats of and calls for violence in any form against any living creature”.
Many offending comments have been dealt with by mods, but some mods are seemingly allowing this violent rhetoric in their respective sub-communities. There are many active threads about the UHC CEO right now on lemmy.world that are filled with violent rule-breaking comments, and very little visible moderation.
Given that the mods are either unable or unwilling to enforce this most fundamental content rule, when can we expect the admins to get involved and start handing out bans to the users that have been celebrating murder and inciting more violence? It’s pretty out of control right now, and I’m betting that the admins could find themselves in hot water with the authorities if this continues to go unchecked.
Finger on the pulse of the people around me IRL (Coworkers, family, etc). Literally no one, not the never-trump republicans, not the "Supported Joe Biden BEFORE the primary" liberals, not one person thinks it was regrettable that this guy got shot, or is wringing their hands about it. This is substantially different from other similar incidents.
My mother-in-law scolded my wife for laughing about it in an instagram post. "A person is dead, how can you write something so hateful. You are condoning violence!".
I said to just reply with a screenshot of all of her posts about marginalized people, immigrants, or Palestinians lol. But also like why the fuck does she give a shit, American peasant mentality is wild.
'How dare you speak ill of mi'lord, he allows me a plot of land to live on and farm for him!'
Medieval CEO pulls out an abacus, starts consulting a table of numbers.
'Regrettably, this particular type of invasion is not covered under your serfdom plan. Please have a nice day!"
A peasant's a petty-proprietor, and its equivalent are small-business people/petty-bourgeois (both in class position and interests)
According to them, next its the king, next its me...
Similar in the U.K. and other countries, if it makes you feel any worse?
Closest I've heard to hand wringing IRL is "He deserved it, but....".
Everyone is fedposting on this blessed day.
What a blessed day it was. Thankfully people, IRL and otherwise, don't really seem to be turning to condemnation.
Put your condemnation in the bag
I'm certain I could find someone, but organically I have not heard any hand wringing yet either
I saw some post by Todd but he seems like an idiot