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Anyone else banned from world news for criticizing China? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I made a comment on worldnews criticizing Chinese activity in the south china sea and apparently got banned for it by the automod. This happen to anyone else? Is this Lemmy's version of the need help post and the shape of things to come?

The instance I posted in was Lemmy.ml

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

what are the other two?

I thought I was only blocking two but it seems I am blocking four

hexbear.net lemmy.ml alien.top lemmygrad.ml

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You've got my 3. I don't know anything about alien.top.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

alien.top is an instance that scrapes Reddit and mirrors posts and comments, creating bot accounts with the same username as the original poster. The intent was to make it easy for users to migrate away from Reddit (just claim the bot account with your username), but everyone pointed out the obvious ethical problems of mass plagiarizing and how nobody on Reddit can see any replies you make. It was also super spammy and 99℅ of the comments are from those scraper bots, so most instances defederated from them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Pretty sure that project ended after all the backlash.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I've got lemmit blocked for similar reasons. I don't really know much of it, but that lemmit bot was annoying me and I just sort of assumed the entire instance was probably just Reddit posts so blocked it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Lemmynsfw is on my list too