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If I understand it right, the moderator of the mastodon.world instance has blocked several posts by Hasnain Kazim, as Kazim reported yesterday on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/661473263/posts/10163657720033264/

Kazim is a quite famous and successful book author in Germany and something between left, conservative and liberal. He was journalist for the most important German weekly news magazine Spiegel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasnain_Kazim?wprov=sfla1

Canceling his posts is stupid and certainly completely exaggerated. To me from the external perspective it seems that the moderator is abusing his power. He is damaging free and respectful discussion. Furthermore, when a famous person like Kazim reports those experiences to his broad audience, who do not understand the functioning of the fediverse, the moderator also damages Mastodon in general significantly, it seems to me.

What do you think about this case ?

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[–] bear@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Sure, but go to any English conservative Christian community and you'll see similar posts, but we don't get big fearmongering posts about that. We don't get big write-ups about /r/conservative posters celebrating the ICE murders and how their beliefs are incompatible with Western liberal democracy, even though they are exactly as incompatible. We're literally living with the consequences of those beliefs right now, while people are still writing hyperventilating posts about theoretical consequences of similar beliefs.

All I'm saying is, selective reporting is misinforming, especially when there's more pressing matters. People have a bias against Muslims and hold them to standards that our own religious groups don't even meet. I'm not arguing that they don't hold bad beliefs, they absolutely do. I'm saying we need to deal with the same beliefs that already exist at home before we start worrying about that. Or at the very least, start painting with a broader brush and include all of it, not just the easy to pick on groups.