domo (@domo@pizza.enby.city)
Content warning:re: fediblock for transphobia/queerphobia
After a look at the homepage of that instance, I would recommend a full instance suspension of goeppingen .social. It's only 5 users anyway. They have pro-Putin users, transphobia is tolerated, and I've heard reports of antivaxxers as well. Feel free to look at their user profiles yourself, but CW: there's a lot of hate.
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domo (@domo@pizza.enby.city)
Content warning:fediblock for transphobia/queerphobia
fediblock for @ d @ goeppingen .social
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morachbeag (@morachbeag@aus.social)
#fediblock spergia.net for racism, fascism, and just generally being the usual bunch of 4chan edgelord twerps I have zero damn patience for.
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lmaoxd1 (@lmaoxd1@mastodon.social)
are0h is a dumbass
oh shit đ sorry for the "racism" đđ
@are0h @Shrigglepuss @schratze @SharpLimefox @sous_mon_masque đđđđ #fediblock #fedicum #fedipenis
this y no one take u seriously đ #darkfedi
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jawarajabbi (@jawarajabbi@mastodon.online)
Huh. I was sure it was Putin trying to kill them all.
#SlavaUkraini #PutinIsAWarCriminal
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objects (@objects@pl.foxcat.lol)
@fabio @palestine @moderation @aral @8124 @Gargron @staff I see you're quite mad at 8124 for very good reasons, cause they resorted to making a #fediblock post instead of communicating with you. its very easy to pick out parts that look "bad" and then make a post saying "ree nazi #fediblock" cause these people are mostly children in adult bodies.
just for an example, I was accused of "gender essentialism" (transphobia) for arguing why gender shouldn't be abolished with a kolektiva.social troll (who was posted to fediblock) and I forgot to mention that intersex people don't have the same male and female chromosomes. so yea. they'll just pick out things that make you look bad.
Ive also been accused of racism and harassment. harassment being the only thing I admitted to, but the racism incident was bcause I said to are0h "im gonna say the n word .. nigeria" , which isnt racist at all. nigeria is a country. I made an account under a new name, but they always find you ..
are0h is also kinda like, the CEO of fediblock. he runs a website called "the bad space", a website used to harass trans women who use "nazi" software such as Pleroma and Soapbox, as well as trans and LGBT ppl who use 4chan.
you should also look up the Eris disqordia situation if you want to know the history of what started all this .. basically, "based" is a racist term, according to these people. its very stupid .. and that's what started it all . to help with your search, look for a fediblock post from instances "jubi.life" and "rage.love" in the year 2022 .. yeah, basically Eris replied to a post with that .
also, I noticed on this post, someone who boosted it is a frequent poster in #fediblock , and I should let u know that they don't actually care about the whole 8124 thing, they just hate mastodon, even tho they use it. they have a problem with "gargron" despite using software that he made.
also fediblock are bunch of hypocrites. they're ok with harassment etc, as long as you're left wing enough. see the Eris situation for examples of this . . they have also blocked instances run by black people, because they are "nazis" .
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objects (@objects@manganiello.social)
GROUNDS FOR #Fediblock OF mastodon.social
@8124 @Gargron @staff I have done a bit more digging on the PDF links that that account keeps attaching to each single post as if it was the new Torah: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-49238-9
This is mainly the work of Matthias J. Becker, a postdoc researcher at the Center for Research on Antisemitism.
Given the amount of publicity given to that text on that userâs timeline, I have reasonable grounds to believe that they are either the author/editor of that book or someone closely related to them.
The details Iâve grabbed about him and his work are honestly chilling when looked in their entirety:
His research lies within the disciplines of (pragma)linguistics, research on prejudice, and internet studies and focuses on the construction of implicit hate speech.
In his postdoc project, he examines various forms of antisemitic and racist hate speech on British news websites in the context of Brexit.
And his public lecture also includes screenshots taken around social media to build the case for antisemitism.
Note that in those slides you wonât find only traditional caricatures of Jews or shameful Holocaust denial as evidence of antisemitism (itâs definitely right to condemn these as the acts of hate and prejudice that they are).
But also memes that condemn the genocide in Gaza, the unaccountability of Israel guaranteed by the US, or âStop calling it a conflict, itâs a genocideâ images.
Basically that guy is grabbing social media content posted by any users that he considers antisemitic, takes screenshots, and adds them as evidence of antisemitism in his books, lectures and research.
And is trying to blur the boundaries and expand the definition of antisemitism.
So my first crucial question to the staff of mastodon.social is:
Are you aware that there are State-sponsored accounts on your platform that harass your users, publish screenshots of their conversations in their lectures and books, and probably feed their posts to language models without their consent, and without any legal basis, and this has been going on for YEARS? Are you ok with it? Have you at least run internal investigations to justify their operations? Will my posts or Aralâs also go in their corpora of evidence of antisemitism? Can you guarantee that it wonât be the case? Because in the past you have put permanent bans for much less than this. And if you canât guarantee that then it should probably OTHER INSTANCES TO DEFEDERATE mastodon.social, because of threat it poses to the privacy of their users, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND
My second point is more subtle and academic, but itâs even more dangerous than the privacy issue.
And itâs about the gradual extension of the boundaries of antisemitism through pseudo-academism that is not founded in actual academic discourse, but on the random book of a postdoc researcher cited as if it was the apex of scientific consensus in the field.
We all agree that denying the Holocaust, posting apologies of Nazism or depicting Jews as greedy is deeply antisemitic and deserves condemnation.
But what about calling whatâs happening in Gaza a genocide?
What about digging the most controversial passages of their sacred texts exploited by far-right rabbis to justify their claims over the whole land and look at them from a modern perspective?
What about questioning the good faith of those behind the Holocaust foundations?
What about putting Israelâs trilemma under their nose and ask them how they are supposed to solve it, and if they they prefer to be a homogeneous ethno-religious State built on Apartheid, or a democracy that either embraces either a two-State solution, or a heterogeneous ethno-religious mix where minorities are properly represented and not discriminated - and that no, keep throwing bombs all around is not an acceptable solution?
What about asking them to repeal the Law of Return, because itâs basically ethno-religious colonialism achieved through displacement of local populations?
What about asking them why they keep expanding their settlements in the West Bank?
What about putting under their nose that commemorating the Holocaust while manufacturing a new one is, at the very least, incoherent?
What about comparing what they are doing to the Arab population today to what other regimes have done to other minorities?
Can we have honest conversations around these themes without our posts ending up in the slides of this guy as evidence of antisemitism whose definition he has manufactured in his own book out of thin air?
If not, can we have admit that Israel is simply trying to forge an iron dome around itself that makes it immune from any form of scrutiny that any democratic country should be subject to?
Do you, Eugene, or the staff of mastodon.social, agree with such an arbitrary extension of the concept of antisemitism, and to turn your users into guinea pigs for such a non-transparent and unethical research?
We demand answers, and weâve been waiting for too long.
cc FYI: @palestine @aral @moderation
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objects (@objects@manganiello.social)
Today I was hoping that I could have put the whole episode of the outlandish accusations made against me by @8124 behind, and use again my profile to talk of the things I enjoy the most (AI ethics, automation, Big Tech alternatives, new geek projects etc.).
But it looks like the levels of harassment against me are only escalating, not winding down.
Report 1
That account and its network also reported me for antisemitism for this post, which:
- Includes a shameful video of people cheering at the bombs being dropped in Gaza and waiting for everybody to be dead so they can occupy that territory again
- Outlines the connections between those sitting in the current Israeli cabinet and publicly acknowledged terrorists like Kahane that argued the same exact things that Israel is doing right now decades ago in books such as âThey must goâ
- Outlines some of the most controversial quotes from their scriptures, often cited by the most orthodox Rabbis as a justification for their current actions.
To put things in context: if a random person wrote something like this:
When they have been delivered over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy
How would you react?
Would you be outraged and call it an explicit apology of genocide?
Now, if I were to add âthis is actually Deuteronomy 7:2â, would your previous reaction make you automatically an antisemite?
Do these fundamentalist accounts apply the same level of âreligious respectâ to similar quotes from the Quran that argue for exterminating the non-believers?
Report 2
I have also been reported for this post.
This is the most shameful of all the reports.
Itâs a video showing the devastation of Gaza that Netanyahu didnât want the world to see. Itâs calling for accountability of the actions of his government. I even wrote:
Just like no god would have allowed Auschwitz, no god would have allowed a whole territory to be turned into this.
And still got reported for antisemitism.
Report 3
I have also been reported for this old post.
They have literally dug up my all profile to find a post from last year where I discussed Israelâs ethno-religious claims because they couldnât find anything else to frame me. These levels of harassment, doxxing and tenacity honestly make me feel unsafe.
For context, my criticism of Israel as a homogenous ethno-religious State comes from a very well-documented academic discussion known as Israelâs trilemma.
Itâs also been mentioned several times on The Economist (source 1, source 2).
It boils down to a simple observation: Israel must decide whether it wants to be an ethnically heterogeneous democratic State, a homogeneous ethno-religious democratic State achieved through a two-State solution, or a homogeneous ethno-religious single State achieved through the means of Apartheid, genocide and forced displacement.
Being a democratic country means either acknowledging the two-State solution, or a Jewish-Arab âbinationalâ State, where Arabs also get their fair representation in the Knesset and non-Jews minorities arenât subject to prejudice. Which sits completely at odds with folks in the current cabinet like Ben-Gvir who proudly defended the âancient traditionâ of spitting on Christians, who harass Muslims praying in mosques, and who caused the previous cabinet to collapse as soon as a ceasefire was discussed because âGaza hasnât been punished enough yetâ.
Forcing a Jewish electoral majority can be possible only by either acknowledging a two-State solution (see previous point), or an Apartheid State.
Controlling all the occupied lands means either accepting a Jewish-Arab binational State, or an Apartheid State.
Israel must choose a side on this triangle.
My rejection of Israel as a homogenous ethno-religious State that doesnât acknowledge the rights of its ethno-religious minorities and neighbours comes from the fact that I would refuse to consider such a State a democracy, and I would have all the right of treating it as a pariah and a rogue country like North Korea or South Africa during the times of its Apartheid.
Of course, all these nuances get lost, all the academic sources are often accused of being antisemitic too (including the NYT and The Economist I guess at this point), and every criticism of their crimes and contradictions gets the same levels of ostracism that I have seen in cults.
I made similar observations to those that scholars made when analyzing the South African Apartheid. I demand the freedom to talk about these topics using the same academic framework without being harassed.
Conclusion
I want those accounts GONE.
@Gargron @staff you have a moral duty in front of history to ban them. Every single additional day where they are active on your platform without facing consequence is an additional day that you spend sheltering terrorists.
Had these been State-sponsored actors spreading pro-KKK or pro-Hamas propaganda, you would have probably (rightfully) banned them without blinking an eye.
It shouldnât be always me defending myself while they do apology of genocide and terrorism behind anonymous accounts with full impunity. I want the spotlights to be on those motherfuckers, not on me. I wonât stop putting pressure on you until you start putting pressure on them.
The activities of some of these accounts (including 8124) were already observed by the kolektiva.social staff years ago, and the investigation concluded that most likely they are just an emanation of Hasbara on the Fediverse.
You have foreign propaganda and terrorist thugs harassing, doxxing and threatening people on your platform with full impunity, and yet Iâm the one being threatened with defederation. Instead, they can just throw a #Fediblock request in the wild behind anonymous accounts, create a new anonymous account if required, always refuse any civilized debate, and get away with unaccountability.
And I strongly demand the right of getting their personal details. Now itâs time for my lawyers to send letters to these anonymous cowards who use Hasbara staff IDs to log in. I am NOT afraid of these thugs, I am NOT afraid of rallying support for a legal case against Hasbara and its systematic intimidation techniques and interference in foreign politics, and I want to see their faces in a court and repeat these accusations to them while staring them in the eye.
You have failed to properly stand up against these levels of harassment perpetrated by anonymous propaganda accounts sponsored by a hostile power, condemned by the UN, with terrorists sitting in its cabinet, and considered a threat to the national security of the country where I live.
You have humiliated yourself, twice, by trying to frame me like a poa.st Nazi troll and falling into all the fallacies that a random troll on the Internet laid in front of you.
You have failed to provide clear motivations behind this outrageous level of inaction, despite Iâm the one who received threats to get fired on YOUR platform, and Iâm the one who is now receiving, on a daily basis, levels of harassment of doxxing comparable to those of a cult.
You owe us an explanation now. You owe it to history and you owe it to everyone who is watching.
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GroupNebula563 (@GroupNebula563@mastodon.social)
#fediblock lain.com - admin there (the titular lain) is a generally problematic user and AI advocate
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8124 (@8124@mastodon.social)
#Fediblock https://manganiello.social
Reason: the owner has written the following
âyes, I do deny the right of Jews to self identify as an ethnoreligion, at least in their current ethno-religious-political incarnation.â
You want to identify as #Jewish? Well, thatâs just too bad â according to this âFabioâ character you have no right to.
Even members of the pro @palestine community, much of which is NOT #antisemitic, ought to be wary. Such âalliesâ can drag down your entire movement.
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amministratore (@amministratore@varese.social)
Varese Social ha bloccato i seguenti domini d'istanza:
pravda[.]me
pubeurope[.]com
theater[.]im
newsbeep[.]org
Sono stati segnalati da IFTAS. Qui i dettagli: https://connect.iftas.org/library/iftas-documentation/spam-fediverse-services/
Nelle info dell'istanza trovate l'elenco con tutti i domini bloccati. Rispetto ad altre istanze cerchiamo di essere i piĂš trasparenti possibili.
Abbiamo aggiornato anche i ruoli in modo che siano piĂš chiari: https://varese.social/about
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objects (@objects@fediblock.mooo.info)
ok so, here's a challenge for you #fediblock ! define these words:
- racism
- nazi
my thoughts are that these words don't actually mean anything on the fediverse, and that they are used as a cope when you don't like someone. it's so easy to just call them a "fascist" if you disagree with them, and don't like them.
@moderation @admin @plush_bot @Mastodon
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