I almost don't want them to succeed, so the exodus can continue to happen. Then again, I don't want this place overrun with their overwhelmingly idiot userbase.

Befitting first comment. <3.

Don’t get ahead of yourself. Most people ‘vastly’ overestimate their ability to spot propaganda.

Project Censored has entered the chat.

Reminds me of the term “defend forward” in the NSA’s lexicon. Made me laugh my ass off when I first heard it.

It reminds me when Jaron Lanier said in today's world, anytime two people come together on the Internet, that arrangement is financed by a third party, that believes he can manipulate the first two. I really miss the good old days when the Internet was still a dirt road you could meet fellow travelers on, and have fun exploring it.

If you really believe that you were banned for promoting Lemmy then you should mention this in your appeal but as others have mentioned it seems like the issue was spam.

And that's precisely why the issue is going to be 'spam', even when it isn't. Because if you can't get away with stating the real reason the ban went into effect, you're going to do it under the auspice of something that has a degree of plausible deniability. I'm far less willing to give Reddit the charitable benefit of the doubt on this, seeing the shear amount of ridiculous bans that have been given out to people. But who knows, it's entirely possible it could've been spam.

100% with that. In fact I was listening to the Darknet Diaries ('highly' recommend their show/podcast if you're a techie) episode with Samy Kamkar from back in the day (1, 2), and he echoed the same sentiment. A lot of his exploits he's done, he's tried taking to the vendors only to have them make legal threats against him for his actions. So the next best thing was... you guessed it... essentially doing a controlled release of it into the wild.

... pornographic mobile game ads

... What? Jesus.

And here I thought Canada was dead set on imitating the worst aspects the US has to offer.

Icon for this community should be an image of a toilet getting flushed.

You wouldn't believe how many times I got called a 'Putin' shill on r/geopolitics and elsewhere.

Same here. r/Privacy was where I first heard of it.

Indeed. Always reminds me of Chomsky's description of how the west characterizes terms like 'terrorism'. It's the "heads I win, tails you lose," version of foreign policy.

Accusations of whataboutism are a thought-terminating cliché that, ironically, usually just help the accuser avoid engaging with a critical argument.

Thank God someone else said it. I always get dogpiled by a posse of morons, whenever I point out that 'whataboutism' doesn't exist.

Except that's not the framing they view the issue in. They see it as preferable to remaining financially kept on the hook and leash of the US, only to have their chain jerked and be threatened whenever they 'act out of line'.

Can't spell goat without the "oat."

There's little point in arguing with people who think history began yesterday.

I'm sure pedophiles would love that defense.

One thing western liberals will never understand is that once you branch out into the world, and really have the opportunity to live and experience the customs of difference societies, you'll quickly realize that different countries have 'vastly' different ideas about what they believe their relationship to the government should be.

I'll never forget the British chick on some UK television program, that was stumped by an ISIS sympathizer in the UK when she asked him "what happens to most people who don't want to obey the law in your country?," and he replied back, "what happens to most people who don't want to obey the law of Britain? 'They get arrested'." She froze on the panel and got dead silent, before pivoting to something else.