NotAnotherLemmyUser

To clarify what I meant there, I'm not saying that they were willing to continue despite what the moderator said.

I meant that they would have continued to report other users for this reason until someone pointed out to them that this isn't really a rule violation.

I can see both sides to this.

Reporting the first user was warranted for breaking rule 2 (Be Civil).

However, reporting the second user for "downvoting a post they disagreed with" was not warranted.

The rules in that sub are specific, but, as the mod has stated, how you vote is not a part of any rule. It's a reminder of how you are expected to vote, but this should not be viewed as a rule that people can be reported for.

In my opinion, that second report should have been seen as a misunderstanding/learning opportunity for the mod to reach out and clarify, and they should have given you a warning rather than jumping straight to a ban. If you had continued to report users for this same reason I could see a 1 day ban making sense.

From this post, it's not clear if you've had other interactions with the mod warning you against reporting for this reason. Considering how new your account is on here I would doubt it.

I disagree with the mod that you "started reporting anybody that disagreed with [you]" however, given your reasoning it's not hard to see that you were willing to do this and you could have easily continued down this path. This could be problematic especially given how easy it is to see how individual users vote in the fediverse (those votes are not private like they are on Reddit).

Overall I think this should have been more of a warning, and the mod could have handled the situation better. A 14 day ban would have easily been PTB material. The correction to a 1-day ban still feels excessive for what should have been a warning, but that in itself doesn't feel like this reaches the PTB level.

It's the norm among the "threadiverse" (reddit-like instances), but this is not a common feature on Twitter-like instances.

You can even hear it in the officer's voice as he mutters "Wow." When opening the door to his cruiser.

It's a long bill, but the details for this ban can be found in Title X almost at the bottom:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6644/text#d10163e18706-intro-1

There's a consumer rights wiki we can use to help keep track:

https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Reddit

The most recent changes look to be a mobile web blockage and requiring a login for using old.Reddit.

I didn't see a dedicated page to this incident yet, but there is a section specifically for this event here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Memorial_Reflecting_Pool

Adding onto this. Just a few highlights from the article:

She said: “I posted a poster for the Tiananmen Square massacre commemoration in Sutton and right after that, that account made deepfake images about me. They’ve been tagging my username since they started it.

Ni said that one of the posts accusing her of animal abuse had correctly written that she had a cat. She said: “I feel like they’re doing some kind of profiling of me … Every time I go out, I feel like I might be followed or watched. And I actually think that might be the case.”

Considering that there are secret Chinese police stations in other countries that target people like her, she likely is correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_police_overseas_service_stations

A small snippet from the article includes details for a decent number of the deaths:

Among the 518 dead, 490 were male, 21 were children and 16 were security officers, Othman said, adding that 197 had died from shotgun wounds.

But he explained that the death toll could be higher as some victims had been buried without the authorities being told.

More than 2,000 people were injured, including 120 security officers, he added.

The U.S. is a big country, whether large vehicles are the most popular depends on what state you live in.

That being said, anyone from Europe will notice that there are way more of these trucks (designed in a lethal manner as you described) than they have ever seen before, no matter what part of the U.S. they visit.

Ana Valens recently resigned from Vice following an article about the censorship of games. On social media, she shared communication between Mastercard and Riot Games.

Looks like Vice can't be trusted as a reliable source of information if they're willing to fire journalists after a little outside pressure is put on them.

The article addresses the topic of how quickly the banning of this kind of material can get out of hand:

These are, it seems, the same people going on book-banning crusades that ensare such smut as Calvin & Hobbes comics.

Magic Tree House author Mary Pope Osborne, children’s poet Shel Silverstein and Calvin and Hobbes cartoonist Bill Watterson have joined Judy Blume, Sarah J. Maas, Eric Carle and Kurt Vonnegut on a mind-boggling list of hundreds of books purged from some Tennessee school libraries.

The removals are the result of a growing political movement to control information through book banning. In 2024, the state legislature amended the “Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022” to specify that any materials that “in whole or in part” contain any “nudity, or descriptions or depictions of sexual excitement, sexual conduct, excess violence, or sadomasochistic abuse” are inappropriate for all students and do not belong in a school library. This change means books are not evaluated as a whole, and excerpts can be considered without context, if they have any content that is deemed to cross these lines. This leaves no room for educators and librarians to curate collections that reflect the real world and serve the educational needs of today’s students.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/02/tn-govt-saves-school-children-from-smut-like-magic-tree-house-calvin-hobbes-a-light-in-the-attic/