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I don't know if this is the right community, if it isn't warn me and I'll move the post!
So I saw a meme about piracy on reddit (apparently a tankie HQ) and I wanted to share it on the biggest piracy instance on the fediverse, with good intentions I post, it gets some replies, but the funny thing is I can't reply as the post has been removed by the admins of that instance.
I couldn't care less, it's just a low-quality meme, in fact I'm amused more than I'm sad. These libs are doing what the US state dept was doing during the cold war FOR FREE!
I hope you all can share my amusement at the fact that apparently all it takes nowadays to be called a tankie is to be against big tech and to post from a mainstream instance. You don't even have to be a communist, it's full paranoia on their part at this point.
The meme in question, nothing "tankie" about it as far as I can tell.
Edit: btw the community about censorship on lemmy has been.... Eliminated
That's fair and I don't mean to discount your experience. A better phrasing would be, if someone is chronically obsessed with "the tankies" to the point that they actively moderate benign stuff off of an internet forum and do the state department's Red Scare propagandizing for free, that person is almost certainly middle-class and well-off at the very least. It's the same demographic that dominates reddit and the wider lemmyverse is just reddit 2.0
I'm sorry for your shitty situation, friend, I hope things get better for you