“Get up off your god damned couch and show some passion for this country and some passion for the children that don’t have a voice, they get kidnapped, thrown in a railcar,” McDavid told viewers of one recent TikTok video, adding that children are being “tortured, hunted down like animals by – not the elites – by the degenerates on horseback.”

Oh man, I thought we outlawed organized small children hunts. Those bourgeoise snobs in their red coats and riding britches.

Also, where would one get a railcar of children. Is that what the “Dark Web” is for?

You’re using a no true scottsman fallacy by the way

Today I learned.

I suppose what I meant is the pundits frequently hold up having their Facebook posts removed as state censorship, that this is somehow in violation of their constitutionally protected right to expression - and its not. It IS censorship by a private body in a forum completely of that private entity’s control, yet they wave the word censorship around to convince others that somehow its a shadowy conspiracy by the deep state or whatever to clamp down on freedom of expression.

Well. My 126k Reddit karma and $2.50 can buy a cup of coffee.

Wait, you guys have a retirement plan?

Guh. I really wish conservatives - and Jordan Peterson - would learn the actual meaning of censorship.

Facebook, twitter, the Ontario College of Psychology… a Lemmy instance is a private body. They can make whatever rules they like. If their rules say you can’t say homophobic/hateful/racist things and you do so, they can do whatever they like. Don’t like it? tuff beans, go make your own Facebook for racists and phobes.

All our freedom of speech, freedom of expression means in this country is the government can’t persecute you for your (dumb or critical) opinions. But you only have limited ability to spew your opinions in public where others can’t opt-out, you can’t espouse your opinions where they incite hatred and violence against others (in a fashion/context where actual persecution and violence as a result is credible) and you do not have a god-given right to spew your opinions in a private forum that chooses not to tolerate them.

Uh oh. @smorks@lemmy.ca gonna have to go to the $30/month plan!

You’re missing the precursors:

Email -> Newsgroups -> CGI forums / IRC -> Slashdot… :)

The new Fediverse really is kicking up IRC and newsgroup vibes for this old timer. Its very exciting.

[meta]

• where do I go with questions?
• is there a community search engine? Y: https://browse.feddit.de/
• is there a community listing? Y: each instance has one of course, “Communities” at the top, but !lemmy411@lemmy.ca is trying to compile one and has it stickied.
• is there a list of instances?
• how do I find my instances admin?
• how do I find a communities moderators?

• why can my instance sometimes not find a community that I know exists (if you look at its home instance)?
• [federation] how can I follow a Lemmy community from <other fediverse platform> and what will that look like? can I respond from <other>, what does THAT look like on Lemmy and vice versa?
• [federation] can I search/follow users/hashtags in other fediverse platforms on Lemmy?

… and be sure to post it to !wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca !

How are the hamsters in the wheel holding up @smorks@lemmy.ca ?

Hrmm. Lets see. I’ve sub’d to @lemmy_support@lemmy.ml from my mastodon account. If this works, I should see THIS comment show up in my feed.