I know this is cheating... But banned from all of .ml for posting an article about China

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-04/beijing-ai-and-censors-erase-tiananmen-square-massacre/105370772

I posted this in Privacy, and News.ml
They were both removed for "off topic" and "lemmy rules". Good times. It's fun to see them literally censor news reports about censorship in China.

This, by the way, is actual real freedom of speech censorship. It's censoring anyone that talks about the government.

Also, i love that they banned an .ee account for six months. That's just extra special sauce.

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thats why you block the triad of extremism, lemmyml, hexbear, and lemmygrad. these people are delusional to think russia and china are actually on the left, they are more to the right than anything.
- They aren't left or right, just straight authoritarian. Policies only serve to saciate the masses and maintain control.
  
  The terms left and right are terrible terms anyway. They do away with so much nuance.

Nice speedrun strat.
- /straightens tie
  Thank you

Just don't contribute to their communities. There is another privacy community that's more discuss permissive
- That's a good point. I appreciate it.
  
  !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com is a good one :)

Do you mean the Privacy community on lemmy.ml?
I got temporarily banned there after criticizing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and a moderator proceeded to remove most of my comments from the thread. Only the ones with >0 upvotes, interestingly. I give the ML mods brownie points for technique, at least.
(Regarding if "off topic" is PTB: I'm not sure if AI generation specifically regarding Tianmen square is on-topic for privacy, but I imagine it would be at home in communities discussing technology, AI, even free speech. But let's be fair, it's definitely pretense for an unwarranted instance-wide ban. Far more PTB than BPR.)
- Yeah, both ml comms.
  You're losing me with the abbreviations though.
  
  You'll find most of those in the sidebar (except AI, but I figure you're good with that one)

Unfortunatly it's the instance with the most vocal about the genocide in palestine. Their video communiry allow political videos unlime lemmy.world one which consider human right activism as political
- They literally practice anti-freedom of speech. Just because they're anti Palestine genocide it doesn't make them good guys.
  That's like saying "oh but hexbear is gay inclusive" when in reality they're a toxic cesspool of hate.
  
  I am not saying that they are good guys. Jus that i follow palestinian news on some of the communities on ml
  
  The myth of "free speech" doesn't actually exist. For example lemmy.world bans all kinds of leftist stuff. Libs and tankies are basically the same thing with different imperial branding.

YDI. Once I posted article in c/palestine about how china was supporting the genocide. It caused some discussion. I mostly stayed away and I wasn't banned... But, if I had started to post in the sub every day about it, then I would probably be banned. The sub is about palestine. It's not about singling out china's role when there are plenty of other culpable parties.
Similarly, the topic of China, "AI", and "Tiananmen Square" are tired as fuck. I've seen version of this story for months if not years. It's just some corny gotcha at this point. Like any technology "AI" will be used by capital and its state for evil as we have already seen. Grow up and stop with the sinophobic bullshit.
- An up to date brand new article is not sinophobic bullshit.
- You aint wrong about it being a tired topic and lower IQ westoids like shilling but that is a current article from a "legitimate" westoid source lol
  
  Thebrainbin? Did you get booted from every single server in the fediverse? Lmao

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