Feddit.org officially announces they will ban criticism of Israel and pro-Palestinian posts and comments.

feddit.org Regarding Mid-East-related Comments on !europe - feddit.org

Hi. In the past few days, discontent regarding mod decisions in this community has been brewing, particularly when it comes to comments on Palestine, Israel, and Israeli politics and actions. There are also misunderstandings regarding mod intention and German law. We hope to clear that up with this ...

Feddit.org announced today that they are changing their rules to match German law despite their server not being hosted in Germany.

Feddit.org now bans

The sentence "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free"
Comparing Israel to the Nazis
Calls to end Zionism
Calling for the dissolution of Israel

And much more. The full original post can be found here, or

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New Lemmy Drama: "Feddit.org officially announces they will ban criticism of Israel and pro-Palestinian posts and comments."

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Man, seeing Germany side with genocide once again was fucking not on my bingo card.
I don't imagine things will get better under the new right-wing government either.
- Comments will not be removed for the following:
  Denouncing genocide.
  Denouncing Israeli war crimes.
  Criticizing Zionism as an ideology or political movement.
  Referring to the current Israeli government as “criminal,” “expansionist,” or “far-right”.
  How is that siding with genocide?
  
  Users can engage in regulated quantities of vague and pointless criticism of the ongoing genocide, as a treat.
  
  Feddit.org now bans
  The sentence “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”
  Comparing Israel to the Nazis
  Calls to end Zionism
  Calling for the dissolution of Israel
  
  Missed opportunity to also drop a Phoenix Wright gif
  
  They ban supporting or advocating actually stopping the genocide
  
  Are you claiming that the German government is running that instance?
  
  The instance behaves according to current German law.
  
  It doesn't have to though.
  
  "While the servers of feddit.org are in Austria, most of the mods of this community as well as admins of this server live in Germany."
  The admins live in Germany, so they have to comply with their local laws.
  
  Local law doesn't require them to enforce German law on non-Germans on a non-German server

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