Mastodawn

Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator Dec 26, 2022

We've silenced mastodon.se and will suspend in a week.

https://blog.mastodon.se/inl%C3%A4gg/%C3%A5siktspolis/

This is a blog post by the admin of mastodon.se where they acknowledge that they have 'anti-political-correctness' accounts, anti-abortionists, harassers, etc. (there are neo-nazi adjacent accounts on there), saying they won't action their accounts because they don't want to be the 'thought police'.

As these kinds of accounts directly threaten the safety of the marginalised people on .art, we'll be defederating.

Åsiktspolis

Update clarification: I want to re-affirm that Mastodon.se has rules against xenophobia, transphobia, among other things, and we will uphold these rules. Nothing has changed on that front. The users who inspired this post had not broken any of those rules. This post was made to try and define how Mastodon.se will handle when reports come in for accounts that are simply openly affiliated with a certain political party, without having broken any rules yet.

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Sheila DeBonis Dec 26, 2022

@Curator This is an instance that serves Swedes and Swedish speakers, I take it? I am somewhat surprised that the "skinhead" demographic is growing, as Sweden had been such a liberating stalwart for progressive ideology. But attitudes change, and fascist, authoritarian nationalism has come into fashion across other large nations, like India, China, Hungary, Turkey, and (especially) Russia. Good on you for taking action. I hope the good Swedes find a new instance.

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mathew

@sheiladebonis @Curator I have some bad news about Sweden: The “Sweden Democrats” who originated as a neo-Nazi party recently won 20% of the vote:
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/9/15/iop-forum-sweden/

‘I’m Scared’: Former Swedish PM Stefan Löfven Addresses Victory by Swedish Right-Wing Bloc at Harvard IOP Forum | News | The Harvard Crimson

Former Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven addressed the victory of the right-wing bloc in his country’s parliamentary election at the IOP's JFK Jr. Forum on Wednesday.