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I am seeing a huge increase in posts and comments that incite violence, make threats of violence against specific people, or that celebrate real-world instances of violence and murder. There are hundreds of comments on this instance posted over the past day that brazenly violate rule #1 "We do not tolerate threats of and calls for violence in any form against any living creature".

Many offending comments have been dealt with by mods, but some mods are seemingly allowing this violent rhetoric in their respective sub-communities. There are many active threads about the UHC CEO right now on lemmy.world that are filled with violent rule-breaking comments, and very little visible moderation.

Given that the mods are either unable or unwilling to enforce this most fundamental content rule, when can we expect the admins to get involved and start handing out bans to the users that have been celebrating murder and inciting more violence? It's pretty out of control right now, and I'm betting that the admins could find themselves in hot water with the authorities if this continues to go unchecked.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just out oft curiosity: in what country is lemmy.world hosted?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

From the ToS:

The website and the agreement will be governed by and construed per the laws of the following countries and/or states:

  • The Netherlands
  • Republic of Finland
  • Federal Republic of Germany

So yeah, they'd be fucked, especially in Germany.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why? No one is inciting violence, commissioning violence, or even inciting hatred.

Hoping something bad happens to a person you dislike is not the same as an actionable threat. Celebrating something bad happening to someone for the actions they committed isn't incitement. That's just a consequence of the person's actions. CEOs are not a protected group of people, it's just a job title.

I don't really see anyone getting in actual legal trouble, I think you're just clutching at pearls for no particular reason.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Why? No one is inciting violence, commissioning violence, or even inciting hatred.

Just grabbing one at random: https://lemmy.world/comment/13806719

You don't have to look far to find more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Not really.

IANAL but I haven’t seen anything that looks actionable under Dutch law.