https://lemmy.world/post/22802143

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(Context: lemmy.world/c/support post)

Title: Moderation not keeping up with influx of violent rhetoric following the assassination of the UHC CEO.

I am seeing a huge increase in posts and comments that incite violence, make threats of violence against specific people, or that celebrate real-world instances of violence and murder. There are hundreds of comments on this instance posted over the past day that brazenly violate rule #1 “We do not tolerate threats of and calls for violence in any form against any living creature”.

Many offending comments have been dealt with by mods, but some mods are seemingly allowing this violent rhetoric in their respective sub-communities. There are many active threads about the UHC CEO right now on lemmy.world that are filled with violent rule-breaking comments, and very little visible moderation.

Given that the mods are either unable or unwilling to enforce this most fundamental content rule, when can we expect the admins to get involved and start handing out bans to the users that have been celebrating murder and inciting more violence? It’s pretty out of control right now, and I’m betting that the admins could find themselves in hot water with the authorities if this continues to go unchecked.

  • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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    18 days ago

    There are hundreds of comments on this instance posted over the past day that brazenly violate rule #1 “We do not tolerate threats of and calls for violence in any form against any living creature”.

    Ok, but how does "any living creature" apply to the UHC CEO?

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      18 days ago

      They clearly aren't even violating the rules.

      Celebrating violence is not a threat or call to violence. Those are totally different things.

      This is what civility does to your brain. 😞

      • Red Army Dog Cooper@lemmy.ml
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        18 days ago

        also someone who is dead is not "any living creature" Interesting bacteria and guinea worms ... and plants do fall into any living creatures... so the rule says calling for a harvist, calling for anti-biotics, and calling for the end of Guiea worms are aggenst TOS

    • Dessa [she/her]
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      18 days ago

      How long does it take for full cellular death to complete? There may be a few cells hanging on somewhere in that corpse

      • finderscult@lemmy.ml
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        edit-2
        18 days ago

        Fun fact, it doesn't. Not if you consider yourself right now as human. Most of your cells in your body have none of your DNA, and without them youd die a horrible, painful, ridiculously hideous death. Many of those nonhuman cells evolved to exclusively cohabitate human Bodies, but many still can live outside the human body for days or weeks. In this way it's likely some lineage of cells from any arbitrary dead person is still alive.

        But if you mean human cells, less than 24 Hours without host function, assuming a neutral temperature and no remaining feeder or transport cells for any given cell type.

      • CrawlMarks [he/him]
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        18 days ago

        Plenty of his bits still floating on the sidewalk too probably