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Any government or governing body should be open to criticism. They are suppose to be working for the people they serve. How is anyone going to know better if no one tells them what they are doing wrong? @[email protected] you have my support

Let's find out: The CCP is committing genocide against the Uighur people

I hope so, although it's not something I personally care too much about.

There's some talk about "a rise in anti-China posts that have hit Reddit lately" in https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/07-history-of-lemmy.html, which struck me as odd.

Criticism of any governments should be allowed, especially authoritarian ones.

https://sh.itjust.works/c/fucktheccp hasn't been banned yet, so I guess yes.

I mean they are commiting a genocide so that's probably not great.

Yo, fuck the CCP!!!!!!! If sh.itjust.works doesn't like it I'm out

Ooof the admins are weighing in on that linked thread at lemmy.ml and it's not a good look if you are in favor of human rights

The great thing about Lemmy is that it's all decentralized. Lemmy.ml mods and admins can't do anything about other instances

This is why I didn't make an account on lemmy.ml. I check to make sure instances I join have banned lemmygrad.

Most reddit shit ever

Lemmy.ml and Lemmygrad.ml are the two only instances where I encountered such criticism, so I assume that sh.itjust.works would allow it

Hate to see tankies running the software and big parts of the platform.

yes, just post your anti-ccp shit here dude it's free dude dude free it's free dude

Host is from Canada and the rules don't mention anything, so I would assume it's fine. Anyone know the host's account name to ask them?

The Chinese Communist Party is absolutely not above criticism, but I always found the China obsession on reddit to be odd. While I don't think it should be banned outright, I think y'all ought to consider what is motivating such a weird fetish (because frankly that is) for a specific government.

Why would they delete discussion like that? Are they waiting to IPO their Lemmy instance?

Kowtowing to the shitty chinese government is cowardice.

The Lemmy project openly describes itself in its public documentation as anti-US, and was apparently founded around the idea that Reddit is fundamentally anti-China and pro-US: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/07-history-of-lemmy.html

The doc starts off talking about open source, but it quickly becomes clear that the Lemmy project is primarily political in nature.

To me this is concerning -- what happens when largely pro-US Reddit refugees swarm a community (community in the general sense, not the Lemmy sense) which was intended by the founders to combat those peoples views? Sure, instances and people can choose to ignore the lemmy.ml instance, but the founders control the project at a much deeper level than that.

Personally I hope that alternative implementations that are compatible with Lemmy arise, totally outside of the influence of the original founders. Yes there is kbin, but I actually prefer the Lemmy model (from what I've seen so far), and I think there would only be benefits of having another high quality implementation which is totally separate yet totally compatible with the original Lemmy. It would make the whole thing more resilient, and could be fertile ground for future improvements to flourish.