https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
- careful, lw mods don't like that
  
  It was clarified that talking about Jury Nullification in the context of future crime is a no-no because it's a no-no in the country lw is based. But in the context of already committed crime it's fine.
  So "Go ahead and commit the crime and we'll do jury nullification!" Is bad, but "Crime was committed, but we sympathize with the motive/person/whatever so let's do jury nullification !" Is OK
  
  The whole thing sounded to me like a smokescreen for, "We fucked up, and we shouldn't have banned talking about it in the first place. We talked about it and banning it was a bad decision that we briefly doubled down on."
  Credit to them for reversing themselves, I guess. That said, coming up with contrived explanations for why you never made a mistake in the first place, because you're always right, is one of the telltale signs of being full of shit. You can just tell people the main explanation. They'll actually respect you more, not less, if you don't engineer your reasonings to maintain this Wizard of Oz veneer.
  
  The whole thing sounded to me like a smokescreen for, "We fucked up, and we shouldn't have banned talking about it in the first place. We talked about it and banning it was a bad decision that we briefly doubled down on."
  I mean... Yeah.
  
  You’re not allowed to talk about smokescreens before the act of fucking up.
  
  If discussing commiting a future crime on your hardware it can be seized as evidence I imagine. If people discuss an already committed crime I suppose they know the discussion isnt evidence as the person believed to be the angel is already in custody.
  
  Lemmy world should have lost all credibility after they hard commited to the bias bot against the majorities wishes, but even on the fediverse people just don't want to move instances. Im starting to think centralization is far from the only issue with social medias today, probably still the biggest, but by a lot smaller margins than I used to think.
  
  I think they did, to be honest. I've abandoned most of the LW communities and I think I'm not the only one. There's enough inertia in the system that I'm sure they will still be a big instance, but the reputational impacts of things like that are often permanent.
  To me, the big thing about the bias bot wasn't the enforcing of the bias bot, it was the lying. If they had come out and said, "The bot is useful for moderation, we're keeping it even if people don't like it," I don't think it would have been any kind of big deal. What causes people to have this really unhappy reaction is telling them, "People love the bot! The minority who doesn't like it is just mounting a pressure campaign" or "You just don't understand the issues involved like we do" or "We're fighting misinformation!" or "The admins are making me keep the bot" "No we're not, the moderators want to keep the bot" or deflecting into this conversation about the cost of accessing the MBFC API or whatever other totally weird irrelevant issue.
  The !news@lemmy.world moderators were the ones who asked their users, got the answer that people didn't like the bot, and took it away. It doesn't have to be complicated. That's why I'm still subscribed to !news@lemmy.world when I've abandoned the other LW news communities, and I've noticed that my Lemmy browsing experience has been remarkably free of weird bad-moderation bullshit ever since. There are no friendly conversations between jordanlund and UniversalMonk. I haven't had articles I've posted get removed for totally frivolous reasons. There are no bots that every user hates and every moderator insists has to be there. It's just news! Good stuff.
  
  Lemmy world should have lost all credibility after they hard commited to the bias bot against the majorities wishes
  Hard agree!
  but even on the fediverse people just don't want to move instances
  Soft disagree. I took a long time to do it, but I moved from .world because of the whole "being the r/politics of Lemmy" thing.
  You won't find a more wretched hive of scum and Neoliberalism than the .world admins and mods anywhere outside of the aforementioned subreddit and the DNC itself.
  
  Lost it for me when they didn't say no to threads
  
  Honestly not too happy about that one either.
  
  That is absolutely not what happened, but play your own drum I guess.
  
  The world admins have a long history of this kind of shit.
  A great example was when they updated the TOS to remove specific call outs for (if memory serves) transphobic hate being against TOS and instead replacing it with very generic text. The response being that they didn't need that text because the generic call outs covered it.
  Nobody with two brain cells was fooled and everyone knew it was about getting ahead of angry chuds who might be mean to the admins. But enough people were mysteriously banned for horrible shit (with their whole post histories being wiped) and everyone else who cared left for different instances.
  I'm not going to fault admins for not wanting to get calls from the FBI. I will fault them for abandoning our friends because they don't want angry emails. But, either way, the constant need to build up weird narratives and assume everyone else is really THAT stupid is just tiresome.
  
  or when they banned piracy at db0, citing legal threats that didn't happen, which was before defederating exploding heads, a nazi instance
  
  Nobody with two brain cells was fooled
  That's the thing. For some reason, people will come up with this logic that's designed to fool a 4-year-old, and then just assume that all the adults who are reading it will be totally taken in by it. I don't know why. Maybe they don't want to throw some individual who ran out in front with a bad decision under the bus. Or, maybe it's just painful to say out loud, "I think we were wrong now that we've had a chance to look at it more."
  I’m not going to fault admins for not wanting to get calls from the FBI.
  Yeah, but that's why you need legal advice. They're sort of pretending that they're qualified to make determinations about what is and isn't a legal problem, which isn't always a good idea to do all on your own once you've grown beyond a certain size. Pretending that you're making these decisions from a position of knowledge and authority just compounds the problem.
  
  The reality is that legality doesn't matter a lot unless you have enough lawyers on staff to fight various government agencies. That is WHY most creators and communities use established services like youtube or reddit because it offloads that hassle to a company that actually has the lawyers to figure out what is and isn't a risk.
  Whereas a lemmy instance is a few people who have no idea what they are doing.
  The best metaphor I have heard to explain this is: A group of weirdos start singing prayers while you are boarding a plane. The flight attendant tells you that you need to sing along or you will be kicked off the plane. You say that is nonsense. They say they are going to have you escorted off the plane if you continue to be disruptive.
  You KNOW you are within your legal rights to not do that bullshit. But you don't have a lawyer with you. Best case scenario? You get off the plane, you get an apology handy from a CSR, and you get to get on a different plane in 12 hours. But now you have missed your connecting flight and 1-2 days of your trip. So you are wasting personal days or pissing off your boss and missing an important client meeting and blah blah blah. And... the browner you are, the less likely you are to see that CSR after the cops escort you off a plane.
  So... you just sing along because it is easier. Even if you know it is bullshit, you know it is "close enough" that your life will become a living hell.
  Which is why I have no issue with a site policy of "We don't want that smoke. Please don't make jokes about the guy who killed a piece of shit CEO until we know we won't get investigated by law enforcement". But I DO have issues with making up weird narratives to justify it.
  
  Prayer day in kenshi
  
  Almost like censorship is pretty much always bad! Who'd have thunk it!?
  
  What country is lemmy.world based in? Because having a law about talking about jury nullification in the context of a future crime sound so incredibly stupid and specific that I need to know the precedent that led to it.
  
  No, it was not clarified, they vaguely mentioned they were not based in "free speech" US but it's pretty clear that it was their own policy since they changed it (they do say they were asking mods to ban all mentions of jury nullification).
  If their opinion was actually based on law, they would not change their policy. They would probably also have added it to their TOS before hand.
  
  I'm not sure what kind of professional legal input they can afford. It's big by fedi standards but the Patreon raises about 10k/year. Not exactly lawyer money.
  I suspect that it's a lot of guess work and maybe some help with drafting and filing here and there. I've never asked.
  
  Weird, jury nullification is super legal and super cool
  
  It's super legal, but it's not always super cool:
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till#Trial
  
  American Dad basically did an episode on this where Roger is on trial and is so personable that Stan is the only reason jury nullification didn't happen.
  
  Lw mods aren't nearly as awful as Reddit ones - most removed comments are either personal attacks or open calls for violence. Even calls for civil disobedience are usually allowed unless they're clearly direct threats.
  
  I got a comment removed because they said insinuating Isralies shouldn't be allowed somewhere was racism. It was fine to do that with Russians during their active war, but Isreal is special and its racist when you hold them accountable the way we hold Russia accountable. And thats when I was specifically refering to the Israeli football hooligans who literally trashed the country they were guests in. So I dont buy that they aren't as bad. They just don't control the whole fediverse.
  
  i guess ruud thinks he owns lemmy because he won timing lottery and snatched a lot of post-reddit userbase
  
  I don’t think it’s Ruud, I think it’s a little clique of the Lemmy people who stepped forward to take it on day-to-day. Ruud doesn’t seem active on Lemmy.
  
  Even calls for civil disobedience are usually allowed
  how merciful of them

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