this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2025
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.

Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.

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I actually even liked the app. Bruh.

Edited as per rules:

This is a post about the newly-viral in the west Chinese social media app Rednote.

I actually liked the app and even said as much, however the app prompts a permission for "Making and managing phone calls" as you can see in my first comment (linked below), I felt it needed to raise this as a potential concern as it's suspicious.

Original comment is at: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35733739/16034665 And https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35733739/16035177 And https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35733739/16035273

Original post is above the linked comments.

The potentially offending text is spread across several comments, the ban does not cite any specific comment.

Modlog is at: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=7652836

Reason: Rule 1 on World News at Lemmy.ml, which goes as such:

No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.

What's even funnier is I'm a bisexual trans woman from Russia, I'm about half of those things they are banning me for being prejudiced against, a fairly regular visitor and commented on .ml, hexbear vet (also banned unrelated to this lol), actually a pretty big fan of Mao (though he made some questionable decisions) and have had a book of his quotes by my bedside for god knows how many years by now, it's my support network when I need to feel heard in rage against various bastards like landlords.

I even liked the app and said it's probably not malware in my opinion as someone with genuine qualifications and a dayjob of making such calls. I was frankly not just being not bigoted, I was pretty charitable too for a multitude of reasons, one of which is to make the tankoids at ml more receptive to it.

However I guess unless I literally mindlessly see mandarin and go soyjak over it every time it's not simpling enough. Tankies isn't even it, it's literally weabooisn for china.

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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 36 points 12 hours ago

Questioning anything Chinese is bigotry on lemmy.ml.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 16 points 10 hours ago

It seems likely you were banned for this comment, not your comments about Rednote:

He's a tankie he doesn't know what that is.

Now I think posting demeaning things about tankies is not bigotry and it’s very silly to equate them, but Lemmy.ml is widely known for this, so this is why most people avoid the instance. I will reiterate that everyone who doesn’t belong to their cult should stop participating and join similar communities on other instances. Their excessive and dishonest moderation makes real discussions impossible there.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 15 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Can you please edit your post to follow these rules in this community’s sidebar? Obviously it’s ml so i believe you but this community is better quality if the posts have all the relevant information for us to make informed judgements. (Further, some instances like mine defederate .ml so it’s several extra steps to find the ml modlogs.)

Provide the cause of the sanction (e.g. the text of the comment).

Provide the reason given by the mods for the sanction.

Thanks!

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 hours ago

Done! Hopefully it's satisfactory! I linked the modlog of my user on dbzer0, linked all my comments in the thread, and gave some more context.

[–] thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 hours ago

Its obvius spyware and ML runs interference for China all the time

[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 16 points 12 hours ago

ml is a joke

[–] heavydust@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 hours ago

We're all banned from lemmy.ml, it's not surprising.

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

The Make an manage phone calls permission is needed to read the IMEI so that's probably why they want it. Yeah, permissions in Android are stupid.

[–] lemonmelon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

If an app has IMEI access, it could indeed make/manage calls, among other things. I would probably like it more if it were phrased along the lines of "permission to read IMEI", but that would mean noting to most users. Instead, the description of the permission is for the most impactful thing that a common user would understand (assuming they're paying attention to what permissions an app requests at all).

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

If an app has IMEI access, it could indeed make/manage calls

Yep, but it shouldn't, there's no reason to. That's what I mean by stupid.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 3 points 10 hours ago

Before we had this sub there was a sub specifically dedicated to tankies

!Meanwhileonlemmygrad

[–] recreationalcatheter@lemm.ee 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Censured by the tankies for thought crimes including looking out for your own safety and wrongthink charges for thinking critically.

You're lucky that's all they did. Tankies are a very powerful and pervasive group with well thought out stances and ideals. Dont think about it, just trust them with all that(🤡)