In the past week I’ve been absolutely roasted for criticising two different countries. Normally I’d be okay with that, I can handle a mild toasting and after all debate is a good thing.
On both occasions though I was flamed for mentioning human rights issues that are established facts and have been known for many, many years. I was critical of the actions/laws of their governments and not the people, their race, religion, general political ideology or nationality.
On both occasions I was bombarded by long posts that parroted propaganda, and in the case of one country I was told (on multiple occasions) that I was ignorant, racist and even fascist for mentioning the issues I did. I’m not complaining about how I was treated, but as a reminder, I was discussing internationally-recognised human rights concerns that can be verified and based in fact.
I could just be paranoid but I’m fairly convinced the responses weren’t from patriotic citizens. I think they were paid trolls or bots, and I think their purpose was to quiet negative talking points about the countries that were mentioned.
Has anyone else had a similar experience?
lemmy.ml is a marxist-leninist discussion board for open-source software enthusiasts. If that’s not what they’re looking for, then yeah they should go ahead and block the instance. They act like it’s a sport to go into communist spaces online and argue in the comments about China or Russia to try to get banned.
I believe lemmy.ml does not have an explicitly declared sectarian alignment.
Their signup page has a link to The Principles of Communism on marxists.org and requires users to copy and paste a sentence from it to apply for an account.
seeing that was such a massive relief when i was looking for an instance that normie lemmy instances were willing to federate with but that wouldnt ban me for not being a generic liberal
Didn’t know that, but sure it’s left-aligned, however The Principles of Communism is not a M-L text.