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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

... because they break the TOS of those sites by not being Nazi enough?

[–] Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Im glad im not on Redddit or X then.

Fuck ICE and their tactics.

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

This site is also the exact same format with the exact same mods. You're not fighting the fight you think you are.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

I don't think they're limiting it to those platforms. It's just that they're big so people are talking about them

[–] chilldrivenspade@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

fuck ICE! fuck trump! fuck this fascist cuntry!

[–] devaly@ani.social 117 points 2 days ago (2 children)

not me.

I'm criticizing them on Lemmy

[–] _fryerDan@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 days ago (7 children)

lol same. im permabanned on reddit

[–] dizzle18@lemmy.zip 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

At this point, its almost a negative sign of your true character if you haven't been banned by Reddit yet.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I left with the API fiasco before I got banned. Should I log back in for a ban?

[–] _fryerDan@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

that was my first time leaving reddit. I left for just over a year, then I needed to find some local community for organizing so i came back, aaaand then i got banned for calling some racist a "white trash chud"

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Holy crap. That's all it takes now? It used to require a believable threat, if memory serves. They're like this close to having FCC-style broadcast TV censorship.

[–] dizzle18@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yep. I encountered some asshole saying Alex Pretti deserved to die because he was carrying a gun in the presence of law enforcement. I told him he wasn't just licking boots, he was deep throating them. That was "harassment," according to Reddit. And I was permabanned. I never got banned for anything my first 5 years or so on Reddit, but as soon as that fat orange fuck was elected, I started collecting temp bans every month. Makes you think...

[–] _fryerDan@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

sounds all too familiar. any thread I was in that was about trump or maga would get brigaded and every non-conformist commenter was temp banned.

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[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They banned me for expressing compassion

Can't have that. Next thing you know full-on empathy will break out.

[–] duckwingthegoose@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I got banned for posting the meaningless letters ACAB

[–] Eh_I@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I said, "You talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded," in the daily We-Are-Idiocracy thread.

I guess we should be glad it wasn't the daily Can't-Make-Blazing-Saddles-Today thread.

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[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just go on there a speak negatively about the pedophile and MAGA and you'll be silenced in no time, at the guise of something entirely different.

[–] KC_Royalz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or post on public freakout and just wish death on a person who's the asshole in the video

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[–] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, nah. Screw around on Reddit now, and you might get yourself doxxed.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't recommend it. Only bots and morons left over there.

Such a happy union. Bots love morons and morons love bots.

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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

Pretty sure they're not restricting this by platform.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Fools! I criticize ICE tactics on Tik-Tok!

[–] madkins@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] grepe@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

the US is not this way because he is the president. he is the president because US is this way...

[–] Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

The President is a malignant tumor.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

Can it be both?

[–] MrNesser@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Soon

Lèse-majesté is a medieval French term meaning "a crime against the Crown", referring to laws that criminalize defaming, insulting, or threatening a ruling head of state or the monarchy itself. It is most notoriously and strictly enforced in Thailand today.

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 42 points 2 days ago (3 children)

If you are NOT on a government watch list by now you should be ashamed of yourself.

[–] chilldrivenspade@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

it is a moral imperative

[–] chahn.chris@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No kidding, I assume they are watching everyone online and flagging anything that isn’t ending with Praise Be to Lord Trump.

[–] TrippingBalls@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Who dares not to bow before the golden statue?

Off with their heads

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

What do you think all those new internment camps are really for?

Speak up NOW or YOU WILL forever hold your peace.

[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago

Comedian Ben Palmer used being put on the DHS watch list as an ad to his comedy shows. It was quite genius.

[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I am! Fuck ICE and fuck this administration

[–] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sorry to hear you're still using either of those sites.

[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Reddit is really trash.

I honestly can't believe that people don't go to Fediverse sites in larger numbers

[–] slemptastrophe@piefed.social 15 points 1 day ago

I'm not on either of those platforms, but I am doing it pretty much everywhere I possibly can.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

I bet this goes far beyond ice, into those that have gained traction criticizing our dear leader. The fucking cunt. Seriously fuck that guy. Old man time is going to take care of his ass.

[–] sportsjorts@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago

I am was and will be. You fucking Nazis.

[–] DragonAce@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Fuck ICE!! ICE is nothing but a bunch of pussies in masks who only signed up because they're racist fucks.

[–] Blibly@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

I am. Suck it chodemonger nazi fucks

[–] Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 4 points 1 day ago

As soon as you stop existing so will the criticism, till then EAT SHIT AND BURN IN HELL!!!

[–] turdburglar@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

fuck ice. come get me, you racist fucks

Fuck you ICE.

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