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Lol. I don't agree with what this user said, but he should be allowed to say it.
Tired of all this censorship of opposing views. Let me decide for myself what I get to see, damn it!
Or we can not have people excited or advocating for genocide?
lemmy.ml is not a general-purpose instance. We have community standards. To quote from that post, linked on our front page:
lemmy.ml, as a community, don't tolerate posts advocating the invasion and genocide of Gaza. Why should we? There's no value in their offensive post whatsoever. There's no societal benefit in allowing it just because, there's no reason in some abstract liberalist tolerance of everything, we are an anti-bigotry community and our moderators have an obligation to our community to kick that junk out. So why should they be allowed to say it?
And I think it's harmful to frame this as being about "opposing views" or "disagreement". It's about kicking out someone who wants innocent people, including some members of our community, killed by a proudly-genocidal ethnostate's imperialist invasion. That's not merely an opposing view or a disagreement! That's not even some abstract what-if or some reasoned critique, that's simply endorsing a threat to our community. If you want to see that stuff, for whatever reason, then you'll need to look somewhere else. We don't platform trash here.
(And, in case you need the cherry on top, they've also made another post supporting rape as a war crime ^[link]^)
There are standards here.