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does sh.itjust.works allow criticism of CCP? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 years ago by wriggly3171@sh.itjust.works to c/main@sh.itjust.works
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I have seen that the lemmy.ml mods will openly ban discussion about the CCP. I am wondering if the sh.itjust.works team allows criticism of government bodies, while still banning racism.

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[-] sharp@sh.itjust.works 73 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There's some talk about "a rise in anti-China posts that have hit Reddit lately" in https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/07-history-of-lemmy.html, which struck me as odd.

Criticism of any governments should be allowed, especially authoritarian ones.

[-] ConfusedLlama@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

It's from the people developing Lemmy the software, not the creators of independent instances like this one or lemmy.world and many others. I think there's not much to worry about since the software is open source and if they start to "leak" their ideologies/politics into the software (no idea how ๐Ÿ˜†), people will fork it quickly.

However I worry that this is so off-putting to some people that they stop doing anything to help Lemmy grow when they learn about the developers' politics. A good example is Lemmur, an Android app for Lemmy, whose author stopped further development on it, due to "lack of interest and political differences", which is sad.

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