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 ?

  • Asetru@feddit.orgEnglish
    13·
    3 months ago

    It’s in the bottom right of the screenshot that shows his complaint:

    Der „Moderator" hier hat allen Ernstes diesen Post von mir gelöscht:

    Ich habe gerade Leserkommentare mehrerer internationaler Medien durchforstet. Die große Mehrheit der arabischsprachigen Kommentatoren feiert den Täter von Berlin, die große Mehrheit feiert seine Tat. Und das ist ein sehr großes Problem.

    Deepl translation:

    The “moderator” here actually deleted this post of mine:

    I just went through reader comments on several international media outlets. The vast majority of Arabic-speaking commenters are celebrating the Berlin attacker; the vast majority are celebrating his act. And that is a very big problem.

    • Zak@lemmy.worldEnglish
      30·
      3 months ago

      That’s his version of events that he’s showing to his audience. People who get banned from things often share a harmless-looking excerpt when that’s not really what got them banned.

      It would be good to have the whole context before reaching a conclusion.

    • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      I think “allen Ernstes” is more accurately translated “in all seriousness”, not “actually”; so: “the moderator here, in all seriousness, deleted…”.