For those somehow not in the know, feddit.org has faced criticism due to their protection of zionism and hate speech as well as their attacks against anti-zionist speech, all disguised as “we must obey German law” (same as the German soldiers in WWII did, it seems).

Some instances are taking votes on whether to block or defed f.o. So I made this lovingly for the Fediverse.

  • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
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    3 months ago

    but like… they’re hosted in germany. if they don’t follow german law they will get shut down. same as they need to censor nazis or they get shut down.

    • mathemachristian [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I’m gonna copy paste from my comment here:

      a) they don’t know that’s what the law says, it’s their interpretation of it. Don’t pre-emptively comply with cops.
      b) if the cops want you gone, you’re gone anyway. Doesnt matter how clean their boots got licked.
      c) host in a better country if you actually disagree with that law
      d) the law doesn’t mandate you allow zionists on your instance. So why aren’t they getting banned on sight but only if they take things “too far”?

      • Szewek@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Yeah, the comment about censoring Nazi stuff was dumb. But @lime@feddit.nu has a point. The legal part is true. They do risk shutting down if they accept anti-Israeli content.

        I am not an expert in German law, but I would expect that criticizing particular actions, policies, and politicians within Israel should be fine. I don’t know the details, I do somehow understand the mods at feddit.org being cautious, they likely overdo it.

        We could also argue whether they should abide to the law. But the good thing with fedi is that we have plenty of instances hosted elsewhere and not subject to the law, so maybe they are the best place to expose Israeli crimes. This is exactly the reason not to defed them.