All from in this thread in !world@lemmy.world about a chant at a British music festival where an artist said “death, death to the IDF”.
After other users were quoting that chant in the comments and had comments removed and banned, the hero of our story, @theacharnian@lemmy.ca (appearing as “acargitz”) pointed out that under international law, fighting an occupying force is legitimate. But apparently not under world news rules, as their removed comments and the many explanations from mods make clear in the thread.
Equally against the rules is the call for the eradication of an organisation or business, even without an explicit call to violence against individual members of the business.
In the same thread: user @DeathToTheIDF@lemmings.world had comments removed for being anti-American “(again)”, though I couldn’t see the first time. It’s not even clear to me how the removed comments were anti-American.
Bonus points for the “DC Comics” removal reason. Though this seems to be incompetence, rather than malice.
I mean, everyone should read up on how “International Law” is an absolute failure.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/04/amnesty-international-sounds-alarm-international-law-flagrant-rule-breaking-governments-corporate-actors/
If there’s no enforcement, there is no law. That’s how we got a 2nd fucking Trump term.
Keep digging 🤣
Sure, you want more links about how you have no idea what you’re saying?
I can literally do this all day:
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/65614/does-international-law-exist-david-allen-green-israel-russia
Again, the problem is enforcement. You can say “x is illegal”, but unless there’s an agency willing to actually enforce that law, it means exactly fuck all.
You probably aren’t old enough to remember when George W. Bush was saying the same things about Iraq that people are now saying about Iran, but the one that stuck out to me was that we had to invade Iraq because they were in violation of 16 UN resolutions.
https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/09/text/20020912.html
Folks like me were pointing out we don’t actually give two shits about UN resolutions because, at the time, Israel was in violation of over EIGHTY of them and we weren’t making noises about invading THEM. It would have been over 100 except the US held veto power on resolutions.
So, again, there is no such thing as “international law” as there’s no international body capable of or willing to enforce it.
So wait, laws should be enforced? Like with violence?
Because if laws are necessary and what society is made of, as you say elsewhere, and laws do not exist wuthout violent enforcement
You are advocating for violence, sir!
Removing infringing comments is only violence to teenage edge lords who can’t stand being told “no”.
Thats not what im talking about. You’re increasingly resorting to non sequiturs. You’re just saying stuff.
Do you smell toast? Do you respond to salient criticism and pointing out that you believe in and swim in a sea of spectacular exemplary violence, to the point you cannot propose solutions to basically any problem, including hunger, without including a violent element-but you ban others for even the miodest proposals of any violemce other than that, while saying its transparently obviously clear?
Bevause if you were having a stroke or a seizure or something while you typed that, im’a assume either your mom found you and got you to a hospital, or im talking at a dead fucker.
If thats not what we’re doing, and we’re just, like, saying random unconnected stuff we say:
you should cook your own ramen broth. Even if you’re using packaged noodles, those flavoring packets make a pretty mediocre flavor for a shocking number if calories. Even sticking to cheap relatively non-perishing ingredients, you can do ao much better.
Again… Lemmy is not the real world. What happens in the real world has no bearing on what is or is not allowed in a lemmy community.
What we are talking about are stupid fucking users who want to get away with comments advocating death and destruction and then acting like they were personally injured when they were told their comments break the rules and were removed.
The rule in !world@lemmy.world and other communities is dead simple: Do not advocate violence.
If you do it, and get your comment removed, go fuck yourself. You deserved it. If you keep doing it, and get temp banned, again, go fuck yourself, you deserved it. If you come back from the temp ban and keep doing it, what in the everlasting fuck do you expect is going to happen?
This is about correcting bad user behavior. Some learn from it, go and sin no more, and become valued members of the community. Others do not and get bounced and nothing of value was lost.
Yes, you wield power here.
Yup. Kinda how it all works.
The internet is just as real as anything else. Information is physical. The secret police can find you from here.
Not to say that the internet is more than slightly real-it is 2025; that’s not even a thing anymore.
But you have advocated violemce here. You have laid out a grim philosophy in which laws, which are purely fantasy nonsense bullshit without the force of violence behind them¹ are the very substance of society² and necessary for social function². I believe you referenced some cuneiform tablets you absolutely will not be tricking me into reading that had a very high opinion of themselves?
That would mean any advocacy for laws or prosecution just a convoluted call for violence, and if ‘luigi’ or ‘minecraft’ aren’t cover, that isn’t either.
So you do endorse and allow calls for certain kinds and contexts of violence. But you won’t admit or acknowledge it. You wont clarify your editorial position; you simply say you don’t have one.
To say nothing of even the driest pro war position.
And (title drop!) that’s a hell of a power trip to make everyone elses problem, you fucking bastard. Why can’t you acknowledge this?
¹pretty much agreed ²wow thats super gross. What the fuck, dude?
Lemmy communites have no power over the real world. We DO have power over what is or is not allowed in our communities.
We choose to say advocating violence is not acceptable here. Attacking other users is not acceptable here. Attacking the mods is definitely not acceptable here.
Don’t like it? Tough shit. Nobody is asking you to like it. Grow up. Communities have rules, if you don’t want to abide by them go fling your poo somewhere else, we do not have to tolerate it.
Always the memes when you can’t refute the facts. LOL.
I just find you ridiculous in general, I don’t even have an agenda to call you out on or anything.
Carry on 🤣🤣🤣