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 ?

  • Zak@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    30 days ago

    This post says who he is and that he got banned from mastodon.world, but it does not say what he posted there before getting banned.

    The .world network is not known, in general for having unconventional rules or heavy-handed moderation. Without more information, I have to assume he posted something that would get him banned a lot of other places too.

    • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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      30 days ago

      It’s right there:

      A post of him was deleted where he reported that a majority of arabic language comments in international media were celebrating the attack in Berlin on a Pride event, and were also celebrating the guy who weaponized his car. He says that this is a big, massive problem in that post.

      He then just posted “The mods have deleted my previous comment, is that for real?” while citing the same comment again - this is what got him banned.

      !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com material.

      • actionjbone@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        30 days ago

        So he posted misinformation that attacked arabic speakers, and the post got taken down?

        I don’t see the problem.

        • Mulligrubs@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          30 days ago

          You don’t see the problem? That’s the problem.

          Feel free to prove “misinformation” though. I assume you must have the logs, share them here to prove misinformation.