They live in Germany, and are subject to its laws, regardless of where the server is hosted.

Good point.

I’m not going to condemn people for choosing to follow the law while they live there and without knowing the context of their situation. The law is what has to change.

TBH, I had to google what ‘trivialising national socialism’ actually means. Could you provide your context or understanding for it in this situation?

At some point, the TLDR stops being a TLDR if you pack every point into it. That also brings up the discussion of what is considered trivialization of national socialism, etc.

None of this addressed the locking of post regarding the current genocide with 0-1 posts.

That was previously explained here: https://slrpnk.net/comment/15701097. I think it made things worse, but hindsight is 20/20.

They are actively removing the ability to discuss, regardless of opinion, Israel’s genocide and only Israel’s genocide.

That is true. For legal reasons, so the blame should fall on the govt of Germany, but true nonetheless

That’s… not the previous post I linked.

Am I correct in saying that the announcement essentially boils down to ‘We support the mods, and don’t think they (or we) have done anything wrong. Here’s why.’?

The previous post which I linked, did not make any accusations beyond stating there was a trend to the posts being locked (which there obviously was). The comments were, but I assume if you’ve read all the comments in this comm in the past few days you’ve had ample opportunity to make up your own mind and the TLDR isn’t going to influence that.

Nothing in the announcement is really a surprise, or unexpected. I disagree with the extent of the mod actions, and I feel reasonably certain some mods are using it as cover for pushing their own opinions. I also understand how the legal threat binds the behaviour of the admins. I will say that those who think this legal restriction on speech and discussion is a good thing are deluded.

That’s funny, seeing as I purposefully kept my post neutral in tone. The TLDR is almost directly lifted from their own statement: “In this instance, we fully support the moderators of !europe@feddit.org”. I made no claims or insinuations one way or another, it’s weird how you’re being so defensive right off the bat. My purpose for this post was to spark discussion, not condemnation.

[Discussion] or [General]? Anything that’s not about specific incidents.

When is the announcement planned for? It’s been a couple days since the topics were locked. Without any further word on it this is no different than standard censorship.

There’s no basically, that’s literally what it is

Wrong. They try to filter out people who know about jury nullification, but the act itself is not illegal, as you do not have to have the knowledge to accidentally do it anyway.