MathGrunt

I like what you said but I strongly disagree. We are not some agency that should hesitate via “guilt by association” when it comes to Nazi or similar right-wing ideology. It is not a slippery slope.

The amount of money spent by nation-states used to prop up these organizations and their ideologies, who are then responsible for misinformation that results in political power shifts that has destabilized the world makes it simple for me.

People are actually dying because of this misinformation, and it is a clear MO to take over social media platforms. Controlling this bot-infestation tactic is impossible, but mitigating of such influence on Lemmy it is absolutely necessary.

So yes, absolutely either defederate or otherwise get rid of any Nazi.

Quick edit: I take back most of what I said above. I’ll leave it there for posterity.

What I mean by “take it back”. The admin over there (I can’t quite see his name… my eyes are not great) is trying to grow his community and didn’t realize how bad some of that actually was. The final screenshot DB0 mentions that it seems reasonable at this time to hold off, since the account were banned. For now.

I’m a lurker at heart, but I’ll subscribe over there a try to post some things that are not harmful to the social structure. I tried something like that when Voat started up years ago,and it didn’t go so well, but Voat had bigger problems.

Pencils. The ones where you need a pencil sharpener to sharpen them every so often. Mechanical pencils just aren’t the same.

I would really like an open-source alternative to Facebook. The connection idea with friends via a social network platform I like, the bots and ads and force fed (propaganda) news I really don’t like.

Plus, an open source Facebook would really hurt Zuck and that’s also a win.

Thank you for the article OP.

While this doesn’t surprise me, I can’t help but wonder how many other parallel situations there are where an industry of many separate entities distort, hide and otherwise lie to the public to maintain the publicly harmful gravy train.