One of the things I appreciate about them is their openness with people who disagree. In that very thread one of the comments by a dev and admin on lemmy.ml: “If you would have left those posts stay on your instance, that’s fine! We’re not demanding that you moderate according to our standards.”
Thank you, that was a very informative read.
I’ll wait and see how this topic unravels in the future. Wishing the devs will state more firmly their position.
This is exactly my point. China is authoritarian and has commited war crimes against people who it doesnt’t like. It also arrests journalists as enemies of the state.
I’m not saying the west is completely perfect but China is much worse
Anti-authoritarian communism is a thing. I think mostly the issue folks here in this thread are taking with you is equating communism with authoritarianism. And I don’t think anyone in this thread is pro-China or defending censoring content critical of China. Quite the opposite in fact.
But communism doesn’t work. All countries that implement communism have restrictions on free speech to hide the fact that it is a broken system.
The reason communism doesn’t work is because people have no incentives to work. You can complain about the evils of the corporate empires but they at least have a motivation to improve even if that is sometimes at the expense of the people
Let me just jump in real quick and provide some info without supporting any side.
You’re referring to the authoritarian communism, and yes, none of it worked, and again yes, it’s the only one that really happened in our history.
What you’re missing is that the other person is referring to the lower left quadrant of the political compass, or libertarian socialist quadrant. And no, libertarian is referring here to the lack of or very week and non focused (with a lot of people in it) government.
For a great breakdown of the political compass I recommend Wendigoon’s video on the topic.
That’s all I’m gonna say here, have a pleasant day and a good watch if you do decide to click on that link.
Sometimes the best tech people are weird as hell. This might be one of those cases.
Although I did hear that they censor content critical of china, which sucks.
I saw this rumor spread quickly and I want to check it out by myself. Is there any reference you could share?
This was shared shortly before the first Reddit wave: https://lemmy.world/comment/43639
One of the things I appreciate about them is their openness with people who disagree. In that very thread one of the comments by a dev and admin on lemmy.ml: “If you would have left those posts stay on your instance, that’s fine! We’re not demanding that you moderate according to our standards.”
Thank you, that was a very informative read.
I’ll wait and see how this topic unravels in the future. Wishing the devs will state more firmly their position.
This is exactly my point. China is authoritarian and has commited war crimes against people who it doesnt’t like. It also arrests journalists as enemies of the state.
I’m not saying the west is completely perfect but China is much worse
Anti-authoritarian communism is a thing. I think mostly the issue folks here in this thread are taking with you is equating communism with authoritarianism. And I don’t think anyone in this thread is pro-China or defending censoring content critical of China. Quite the opposite in fact.
But communism doesn’t work. All countries that implement communism have restrictions on free speech to hide the fact that it is a broken system.
The reason communism doesn’t work is because people have no incentives to work. You can complain about the evils of the corporate empires but they at least have a motivation to improve even if that is sometimes at the expense of the people
Let me just jump in real quick and provide some info without supporting any side. You’re referring to the authoritarian communism, and yes, none of it worked, and again yes, it’s the only one that really happened in our history.
What you’re missing is that the other person is referring to the lower left quadrant of the political compass, or libertarian socialist quadrant. And no, libertarian is referring here to the lack of or very week and non focused (with a lot of people in it) government.
For a great breakdown of the political compass I recommend Wendigoon’s video on the topic. That’s all I’m gonna say here, have a pleasant day and a good watch if you do decide to click on that link.