this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2026
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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Surely that is actually illegal in some places.
unless you live on the moon, which legally cannot be "owned" by any country and therefore isn't under the jurisdiction of any country, then this is, in fact, illegal in every place.
No doubt there are some nations that don't have rules for this like developing nations.
Well there's no way they could pass legislation at the breakneck speeds of the U.S. Congress.
Like I'm pretty sure e.g. Russia wouldn't enforce law against a DDoS attack when it's targeted at an EU/NA based service, but it's probably still unlawful.
Antarctica is also not owned by any nation, but generally nations claim certain territory and would enforce their laws there
If he’s US based it’s very illegal. DDOSing can carry a prison sentence of up to 10 years. His hosting provider already took it down, and I’m pretty sure they’re obligated to report criminal activity on their networks, so this guy is probably fucked.
So is what everyone was doing to them, would need to press charges against everyone.
Making memes and fun of a shitty block list is not illegal.
Cyber crime, as awesome as it sounds , however is illegal. Not that we would want to bring cops into anything.
Yeah I'm actually hoping they aren't prosecuted. Cybercrime sentences are insane and this is clearly a case where someone needs help, not prison.
Nah, you don't get away with actions when you take the mental energy to do them instead of just logging off. No one forced him to DDOS, he chose to. Actions have consequences.
? What do you even know of the story if that’s your take…? They were being doxxed, getting death threats, harassed, etc. all of these are cybercrimes….
Lemmy users never want to be held accountable for their actions, but love calling others out *shrug*
If you think it was just jokes and memes, you need to actually read into the details
What they did isn’t okay, but the response to that from the Lemmy users was equally unacceptable, and their response here is the middle finger.
They know nothing is likely to happen, because who’s gonna press charges? The people that also did illegal shit that started it…? Seriously lmfao.
The response to the illegal actions then are between the Tesseract dev and law enforcement.
"Was being doxxed" or whatever other claims were made, are not, and never will be, legal justification for starting a cyber attack on anybody.
Because the law is always on the side of free speech, especially when it contradicts the government.
https://dictionary.justia.com/subversion
Someone needs to press charges for law enforcement to do anything or even get involved. And to press charges you need to be “involved” or have been affected.
And that person is gonna get called to court and have their history exposed, courts don’t like people who aggravate others than go and waste courts time with charges.
Lawyers get disbarred for that crap, it’s illegal itself.
You can’t provoke someone in to shooting you than press charges, that’s what this would be like.
That depends entirely on what you mean by "provoke". The only time you can ever shoot someone and not go to jail for it is if you can prove it was self defense, and the threshold to prove self defense can be extremely high, depending on jurisdiction.
And for every other type of offence, doing something illegal in response to someone doing something illegal to you just means you both go to jail. "He did it first!" never even worked in grade school, not sure why you expect it to work as an adult.
Tagged you as "ai simp" a while ago. Seems like you're full of shitty takes. Also... "Than go..." lol
Than Go was the guy who painted sunflowers, right?
Sounds like a Vietnamese name. Or Thai maybe.
lol, you're even wrong about this part.
Law enforcement can do things and get involved any time they're aware a crime has occurred. 'Press charges' is a nonsense term with no actual legal meaning. What they might need is for someone to report the crime and make them aware of it. But once they're aware of it, it's their choice whether they want to investigate or prosecute anything.
And anyone can report a crime. You don't have to be involved or affiliated.
Why do people so often assume total pricks are telling the truth? I doubt anyone here is cheering on death threats/doxxing. I find it hard to believe they actually happened. He provided zero evidence of it.
Eh there's always that one guy that does shit like this, unfortunately. I'm not saying it is true but it wouldn't surprise me.
Maybe it did happen, but admiral Patrick did nothing to convince us and given the whole issue surrounds him secretly doing shit, I'm less inclined to believe it.
Trusting the victims and healthy scepticism are always at odds with each other, but in this case AdmiralPatrick has already been caught in bad faith arguments before where others have had receipts and he had nothing.
It wouldn't entirely suprise me if some nutcase actually did send him some death threat, but in this instance I'm not going to just take his word for it.
I mean considering they've had zero qualms name dropping entire instances, users, communities the fact there's zero pillorying of those sending "death threats" looks suuusss
But if they drops names it's easy to disprove
i’ve been having a grand ol’ time skimming the tea threads and i haven’t seen a single instance of death threats or doxxing. not that it’s not happening, but that’s FAR from the general public response here.
The people who "started it" started what exactly? All he gave were vague claims of xenophobia and hate.
I don't take the word of proven cyber criminals over their victims, as is the case here. If he provided proof, I would, but he didn't.
Well, yeah, people who done that should also be investigated. How does this contradicts slazer2au's point?
I never said it did? I just said Lemmy users should look at themselves first, they did illegal shit first.
Or are you taking my response to quokka and attributing that to my first response to slayer? Because that’s not the same discussion. So don’t take that out of context.
"Lemmy users" is pretty vague.
Unless you are accusing the specific users you're replying to of the crimes you're bringing up, what's the point of responding to them?
I didn't do any of the things you're bringing up. Why would a response asking "lemmy users too look at themselves" be relevant to me?
Does the concept of “context” not exist to you?
Specific topics don’t need to specified when it’s contextual conversation.
That’s what this is, you’re of course free to take it wrongly and interpret that way.
You're whataboutisming along the lines of "you should think about you've done first" to people who probably aren't even the ones who did the things you're bringing up.
You're not commenting to add that people were dicks to the tesseract dev, too.
You're commenting that people were dicks to the tesseract dev first, and pushing everything that putting it that way implies.
By definition, you can’t privately doxx someone, and I’ve found no evidence that anyone doxxed him. Sounds like BS.
If true, yeah that’s a crime. He should report it.
This is too vague. I dint doubt he got messages about what a dick he was, secretly forcing his ideals onto others without letting them know. I 100% believe that happened, but I 100% disagree that is harassment. I also 100% believe he would call it harassment out of convenience. He definitely seems like a very fragile individual.
I do need to ask, if I claimed some random thing while ddosing you, would you believe me?
That does not excuse deliberately deploying a ddos tool.
Maybe if he left like he wanted to and didn't make 3 blacklists people would not be calling him out on his shit.
Those actually doxing him and no doubt calling for his death are also in the wrong.
Except for the supposed death threats he says he got, what was illegal about what people were doing to him?
What’s the tesseract drama?
Tesseract is a lemmy frontend a lot of people use. The dev secretly added a blocklist to the software that hides ANYTHING they don't approve of, which includes: discussing zionism, discussing mod abuse, discussing billionaires, a lot of generic news communities, the Wholesome Yuri community, the dz0 instance, and a LOT more. It also includes over 500 users who didn't do anything worthy of a ban (at least of that scale).
It's nakedly a single person trying to force their own agenda. They got called out, and they took it as well as you could expect. Which is to say, they're crashing out HARD.
Don't forget he blacklisted any communities about "identity politics" I.e. LGBTQ+ spaces
And any discussion of pedophiles, or the epstein class. Seriously, you can keep looking through that list and it'll keep getting worse and worse, but I had to click "reply" at SOME point.
And ACAB, beans, the word perchance, and 👉👈.
Truly, the worst of the worst.
Have they ever said "identity politics"?
I only know of them banning lemmy.blahaj.place and saying its because the instance allowed people to talk about hurting other people (i assume its referring to the posts about attacking fascists)
It was literally in his manifesto when he was first called out on it.
Do you have a link to it or anything? Im curious to read it
Huh. Now I’m curious if I’m on the list. 😂
https://lemmy.world/post/49947838
What was everyone doing to whom?
Tesseract guy, I presume