What if providing people with unfiltered truth makes them come away with the wrong, non-state sanctioned opinions? We simply must censor freedom of information requests about ukrainian nazi immigrants, and censor documentaries that may contain dangerous slivers of nuance. To fail to do this would put our free thinking, free societies at risk.

In all seriousness -- we are not safe. If censorship fails and they lose the ability to paint us as cranks, they'll have to rapidly pivot to treating us like imprisonable enemy agents. Obviously, this already happened in some of the baltic countries, and to a degree in germany.

I understand that conflict might not be worth it at this time, but I surely hope Tehran isn't counting on the US to stick to any agreements.

This conduct reaffirms the respect for the law that has prevailed in the actions of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the international community.

This fake government in exile and their westoid backers have no regard for law or democracy.

The Venezuelan government really isn't afraid of these Guaidó plays. That or they are stupid.

My thoughts exactly.

Interviewer for state-owned canadian broadcasting interrogates an orc spy with intrinsic duplicitous nature after they suggest that orcs might actually be conscious humans with their own motivations. Interviewer corrects the orc spy and reminds them that there is only one permitted and state approved version of events.

Pjotr Sauer, the hero that interrogated this filthy orc spy, worked previously for "The Moscow Times", which is forbidden from operating in Russia due to "foreign agent laws", after he completed his degree in Russian and Asiatic Horde Studies.

Truly a man without an agenda or masters.

If you think that's bad, just read about how they treated their Helot slaves.

Mandatory ritualistic beating and shaming, and a yearly actual purge to keep them in line.

Spartans are about the most pathetic culture to have ever existed.

She did get to ride through the easiest times - the peak imperial moment.

That's a lot of words to say "I should have more ways to ego trip while moderating."

What about the post you linked is uncivil?

Are you a person of land?

All you're asking for is to replace clear cut censorship with more subtle, manipulative, petty ego tripping censorship.

I'm sorry that you shared your experience with someone on the internet and they shared theirs back with you. If you'd like to avoid future upsets, there's already an in built solution in the form of logging out.

There's never been one of these "Hexbear is mentally ill because they disagree with me" threads that hasn't been result of someone coming here and getting banned after posting in bad faith. -- Surprisingly, it seems that the rest of the fediverse is increasingly aware of that.