I guess, do whatever fits your budget and/or conscience? I don't think we push a particular philosophy. Folks pirate for different reasons.
Flatworm7591
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Agree with all of this.
I'm not protesting the ban, which was I suppose reasonable as you have described, though a simple removal would have been appropriate imo. I'm protesting the rule. I think I was fairly clear about that in the original post. I've commented elsewhere in this post about why I find this rule highly problematic, so I won't repeat it all again here, but the attitude that it's ok to protect religion institutions from fair criticism in the name of civility is what leads to church abuses in the first place.
If you want an established rule changed, you go about trying before breaking the rule. That’s just common decency in a forum.
Dude, have you ever tried speaking to LW mods about why their rules are stupid? The only thing they ever respond to is user protests because they dont like how the majority of their own users think.
Nicely said, Philip.
It's literally the first thing that comes to mind when I think of the Catholic church tbh :(
I agree with your assessment, but in my view the moment we start shielding religions institutions from proper scrutiny and criticism, that's exactly the sort of thing that enables and leads directly to church cover-ups of child sex abuse, for example. In a functioning democracy, religious groups should have no special privileges beyond what applies to civil organizations.
They’re calling Luigi supporters tankies because… The middle/lower class cheered for the worst of the bourgeoisie being taken out???
I know right, these mods are such social conservatives. They have no idea what the majority of their users think, or if they do, they disapprove of it. It's such a condescending attitude of "we know best".
ok let's add that to the list of remedies
Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
A mod from World News@lemmy.world.
What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
I had my comment removed and received a one-day ban.
Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
Original post: Pope is in ‘critical’ condition after suffering ‘asthmatic respiratory crisis,’ Vatican says
Like many of us on Lemmy, I think the Catholic church is responsible for a lot of evil in the world, including the way they were/are directly involved in blocking access to contraception leading to the needless death of millions of Africans due to the AIDs epidemic, the endless cases of child sex abuse, along with the ongoing coverups, and honestly too many awful things to mention in detail here.
So I left a comment that said:
The Catholic church at this point has all the moral authority of a child sex cult.
Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.
Amend community rule 4 to remove the reference to religion. WTF is it doing there as a rule in a news community in the first place? Is LW being run as a theocracy now?
Rule 4: Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, ~~anti-religious,~~ or ableist will be removed. “Ironic” prejudice is just prejudiced.
The mod in question is also a religious weirdo (see below during a discussion about Luigi), so perhaps that is why they have the rule in place. But if that community not going to accept fair criticism of religion then it isn't a serious news community imo.
I fully acknowledge it wasn't a long ban and the rule was in place, so it was perhaps a BPR or YDI in that sense. But the rule shouldn't be there in the first place. How on earth is it justified? And looking at the other votes and comments on that post, it's clear that the the vast majority of folks hate the Catholics church as much as I do. So why is this mod running defence for the famously morally bankrupt Catholic church in a world news community?
I think the threat of a sanction still qualifies.
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YDI. Seems like a really dumb take. AFAIK to many folks (not from the USA) North Americans are from Canada, USA, Mexico combined with the Central and South American countries, they are collectively known as The Americas. Everyone in the Americas is American in the same sense that all Africans are African despite there being many countries. The arrogance of USAsians co-opting the name of the whole continent of The Americas as though they are the only country that matters is kind of mind boggling.