I for one have stopped posting any content to lemmy.ml communities.

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    19 days ago

    It’s fine if the admins of an instance implement whatever rules they want in their instance; however, once they start enforcing hidden rules disguised as violations of the listed rules, they’re being liars and treating the users as stupid things to be herded, not as human beings.

    I see a lot more of that on .world communities, specifically the news and political memes communities will remove comments for “misinformation” even if you’re citing academic works.

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      will remove comments for “misinformation”

      As they should

      even if you’re citing academic works.

      I’ve seen the “academic works” y’all cite, blog posts, YT videos, random books and retracted studies

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        19 days ago

        random books

        So if we’re not allowed to cite books, what exactly do you want?

        blog posts, YT videos, and retracted studies

        Who is citing those? I’ve had liberals link hour long youtube essays and I just say “lol I’m not going to read that”, but I’ve not noticed anyone on the left doing that.

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      If the .world admins are doing it too, it’s also bad. Thankfully I didn’t list a single .world community, although for another reason.

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        From a formal logic perspective, your statement is true. But in real life, the more important distinction is not between “true” and “false”, but between “purposefully deceptive and ungenuine disinformation” versus “outspoken dissenting viewpoint”. And that is one that people are really bad at telling the difference between, especially if the viewpoint in particular is one that they hold very strongly.

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        Classically lemmy.world.

        “Your peer reviewed academic studies are misinformation, do you not read the news ?”