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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by ChowJeeBai@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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[-] cloudless@lemmy.world 173 points 9 months ago

Block these instances: lemmy.ml lemmygrad.ml hexbear.net

There is no point arguing with tankies. They are dumb and they won't change. I just hope there will be a way to completely block those users including their comments. They are polluting the fediverse.

[-] Ignacio@kbin.social 50 points 9 months ago

I just hope there will be a way to completely block [...] users including their comments.

Remember who the developers are.

[-] cloudless@lemmy.world 31 points 9 months ago

Yeah. I hope kbin will grow and have a decent mobile app, then I can finally move over.

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[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 155 points 9 months ago

Lemmy.ml is a tankie instance that loves China and hates western countries. Unfortunately, it's also one of the biggest Lemmy instances because it's run by the main devs of Lemmy (who created Lemmy because they were frequently banned on other sites for bootlicking for China). Thankfully, Lemmy is open source and the nature of how it runs allows everyone to ignore the weird ideologies of the devs.

[-] Neato@ttrpg.network 38 points 9 months ago

It's one of the only 3 instances I block. All tankies bullshit.

[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 9 months ago

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

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[-] wahming@monyet.cc 108 points 9 months ago

Hey fellow non-China Chinese. Just block lemmy.ml, lemmy grad.ml and hexbear for a much better lemmy experience.

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[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 105 points 9 months ago
[-] ChowJeeBai@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago

Apparently I make the great yellow peril.

[-] tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 95 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It was !worldnews@lemmy.ml ... so yeah, almost anyone that say anything against China. It's a tankie instance.

Use !world@lemmy.world instead.

[-] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 31 points 9 months ago

It's !world@lemmy.world, the other one is a very inactive community.

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[-] ChowJeeBai@lemmy.world 63 points 9 months ago

For those of you asking/ curious, the reason given was 'yellow peril'. Really? I guess my being asian and directly affected by the Chinese activities in the scs makes me somehow a threat to yellow people?

[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 24 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Same. I literally have family in China and therefore a real stake in Chinese society. Meanwhile a bunch of western tankies who have never been to China and don't speak the language hand down bans merely for me relaying conversations I've actually had with real Chinese people in their native language about Chinese history and politics.

It's simple racism to infantilise all Chinese people like this, believing they need a bunch of white saviors on the Internet to speak for them and guard their cultural chastity.

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[-] laverabe@lemmy.world 44 points 9 months ago

thanks for the heads up. I just unjoined all lemmy.ml communities, and blocked the instance. That sort of censorship is not a good thing.

[-] Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works 21 points 9 months ago

Some of them came here from Reddit when chapo trap house got banned. Others are straight up BRICS propaganda accounts.

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[-] Quereller@lemmy.one 41 points 9 months ago

The .ml stands for Marxist /Leninist.

[-] Dnn@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago

Funny, communists always insist China isn't communist at all, so why would they care about it being criticized?

[-] Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 9 months ago

Tankies aren't that type of communist, that is, sane. Tankies are auth rights disguised as leftists.

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[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 38 points 9 months ago

just block the lemmy.ml instance and if you start to feel annoyed by the hexbear, block that one too. You will not notice any loss

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[-] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 38 points 9 months ago

That's because the instance was ml. I regularly criticize them in world for their absurd actions.

[-] 3volver@lemmy.world 34 points 9 months ago

Fuck the Chinese government.

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[-] amio@kbin.social 22 points 9 months ago
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[-] Aux@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

Tankies have occupied the post!

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[-] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 19 points 9 months ago

I ran into something similar a couple days ago:

I wrote a comment critical of Chinas actions in Africa, which was silently deleted after it got traction. When I looked at the mod log, my comment was not listed. Checked back on my comment, checked the mod log from another machine. Nothing.

Just silently and covertly removed without any trace of who and why. Has me really suspicious

[-] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 20 points 9 months ago

That tracks. China's (imperialist) abuse of Africa isn't the message they want out there. They frame it as win-win collaboration

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[-] Pan_Ziemniak@midwest.social 18 points 9 months ago

Got banned after calling out russian propaganda for being just that. Literally happened on my first or second day on lemmy.

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