Now why would they want to punish those who spread libel? That's silly.

Time to punish the people who want to end a war!

Care to share for those of us that are defederated?

They're going to continue tripping down

Oh no, Emopunker will spin up accounts to harass you. It's what he does to aid in the German assistance for genocide.

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little peach?

Very interesting that it name dropped quokk.au and dbzer0, the two instances who defederated feddit.org for Zionism.

And a casual mention of targeting LW next, like the perfect fear hint to push Lemmy.world to make a move and defederate us…

I don't actually know if it was emopunker specifically, or another user, but it's very suspicious they were the only feddit.org admin to get pissy with us about the defederation over zionism (dms etc), and then they pop up in that post to defend their OP "friend" who they claim to "have known for ten years". In effect, they are arguing in support of the claim because it was made by a friend who they trust.

How would you as an admin handled this kind of post? Like for example a post where a hexbear.net admin gets called out as a neo nazi with the proof of a single screenshot, no working links or waybackmachine snaps. Remove? Lock? Pinned Modpost that hightlights the speculatory parts of the post?

If it's literally fake news, but they want to keep it up for posterity, then it should be very clearly identified as such in the post by the feddit.org admins. Otherwise it should simply have been removed with a refutation in the modlog as soon as a check was done. It was a very obvious fake, after all. Instead, emopunker amplified the claim and even tried to bolster it by vouching for OP.

And really asking in good faith: How would you as an admin handled this kind of post?

First take thoughts.... Comment that it will be looked into, that it shouldn't be presumed as accurate, and lock the post. Note that anyone with additional information should contact with receipts, including OP needing to provide them.

If OP has nothing but screenshots, I'd lean toward removal after a fashion.

So pinned modpost + lock, then remove if nothing further can be provided would be my personal take.

It doesn't mean it can't have been altered. Unless it was signed with the date in the signature and/or was archived a month ago there's no guarantee the content was what it shows today.

ACAB. Nothing good will come from inviting state-violence into this.

My thoughts on "authorities" aside, you'll do a lot more continuing to look into things here than anything else imo.

And solid work getting this info together in the first place BTW, thank you

For this to get anything done you would need to hand over personal information to the police, as only the smallest amount of anonymous tips result in any kind of police action in Germany.

But better yet, instead of going to the cops, keep doing what you are doing here in fact checking those claims and spreading the message when you find a lie. That would actually be worth your time.

No one is going to touch that...this literally has no victims or personal info for them to follow. It's online drama and that's basically it.

Calling someone nazi could be considered an insult if the person is indeed not a nazi, which will be determined by a court.

It necessarily requires the libelled person to file a criminal complaint. If you have not been personally insulted, you are wasting your time because you are ineligble to file such a complaint.

This does not apply to politicians, whose insulting can be prosecuted if it's in particular interest to the public as well as members of groups prosecuted by the Nazis, if the insult is related to their prosecution. No particular public interest required in the latter case.

See: §194 (1) Stgb

That is to say: You are wasting your time. Have fun sending your name, address and contact information to the German police to be stored for a while. Anonymous criminal complaints are always ignored.

Feddit.orgs argument for removing anti-Zionist content was that hosting it is against German law.

If calling others Nazis is against German law and they are hosting (and defending) content doing so, surely that is something to be investigated.

Is that a specific law? And I assume that only applies to German citizens, not just random people (and not even people but their online alias) or communities online not hosted in Germany.