So a Palestinian facing genocide autocompletes a hashtag incorrectly by mistake (#doctor -> #doctorWho) and you jump down her throat?
How about you get some fucking perspective, Angela?
#Gaza #Palestine #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #privilegedWesterners @AngelaScholder https://mastodon.energy/@AngelaScholder/116397038832441549
@[email protected] This definitely is NOT #doctorwho ! Don't abuse hastags!
@AngelaScholder So, Karen, just so you understand the consequences of your actions:
Because you reported this post (https://mastodon.energy/@AngelaScholder/116397038832441549) by @joynewacc for an erroneously autocompleted hashtag (#doctor -> #doctorWho), a mastodon.social moderator *deleted her post*.
Yes, read that again: the post of a Palestinian, suffering through genocide in Gaza and trying to share her experience – someone who is, moreover, a founding team member of Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org/team/) – was *deleted* for a stupid hashtag that some white Karen in the West got distressed about.
This is so fucking wrong in so many ways that I don’t know where to begin.
I want to know:
1. Is it mastodon.social policy to just go ahead and delete the posts of its members or was this a moderator acting out of spite against a Palestinian? (Or is everyone on mastodon.social at risk of having their posts deleted if moderators don’t agree with the hashtags they use?)
2. If this is not mastodon.social policy, I’d like to know what action will be taken regarding this moderation action and the moderator responsible and what will change internally to ensure that something like this doesn’t happen again.
Israel is already doing their best to erase Palestinians. The least we can do is to not help them by literally deleting the posts of Palestinians on the fediverse. Thank goodness hashtags weren’t a thing in the days of Anne Frank because clearly some of you would have burned her diary had she used the wrong one by mistake.
3. Can we all, please, have some fucking basic decency and maintain perspective when dealing with people suffering through genocide, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid? It’s a pretty low bar for humanity.
And, whatever you do, do not be this Karen.
Check your bloody privilege.
And fuck your hashtag.
We’re talking about human lives here.
CC @staff
#Gaza #Palestine #mastodon #fediverse #moderation #mastodonSocial #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism
@aral @[email protected] @joynewacc @staff
I have never heard of anyone getting a post deleted for using the "wrong" hashtag, but if it was going to happen on here, it's not surprising it's mastodon.social
I also didn't know anyone would bother to complain or report a post for such a reason. Literally the mute button is right there if a person's use of hashtags bothers someone that much.
"wahhh, my precious fandom......brown people dying en masse interrupts my White(TM) colonial safe space :("
to start, these are actual people dying and this is a further act of censorship. the proper categorization of your blorbos is not more important than real, tangible, human lives.
on a more petty note the show is on its deathbed after the catastrophe that was Disney Who. so at least Angela won't have much to report after for long.
@aral @AngelaScholder @joynewacc @staff or this, where @staff users call VERIFIED #gaza victims "fake beggars". my case is rested.
@aral @AngelaScholder @joynewacc @staff Imagine reacting like that over a hashtag. No "Hey, you sure you meant to use that hashtag?" or anything like that. I can imagine someone wanting to do hashtag poke and it getting auto-corrected to 'pokemon', but it'd be really a whatever-thing. Like, who cares, really
Maybe not totally analogous, but I'm reminded of this post:
https://squawk.social/@Konaburd/111233795497967116
Apparently I got reported today for using the #Alt4me tag and not being blind. I was told by multiple people on Mastodon that if I didn't have the energy to do alt text for every image I could use this tag and someone would do it for me. Instead I got reported to my instance owner. You all need to make up your fucking minds what is acceptable and what isn't if you want people to stay on mastodon. As it stands, I don't feel comfortable posting images anymore because if I don't have the energy to write alt text then I get shamed, if I used #Alt4Me I get reported You people make it so tiring that for someone like me with ADHD and Executive Dysfunction it is much easier to just not use Mastodon to post any images!!!! I'd also like to touch on how people always shame others with "invisible" illnesses. I cannot escape it. Just because I am sighted does not mean I am not disabled in some ways. But people can't see ADHD and executive dysfunction, so I just get their personal diagnosis of 'LAZY'. I can tell why artists aren't flocking here in droves. I don't know what I am going to do going forward but I feel pretty fucking uncomfortable posting any images to Mastodon now lest I be shamed or reported or fediblocked because someone didn't like whatever about my posts. Thanks for that. Boosts highly encouraged I think everyone should see this. #disability #adhd #InvisibleDisabilityRights
@aral @AngelaScholder @joynewacc @staff
Some people are just fucking entitled asshats ... All over an incomplete hashtag
Hugz & xXx
# fuck you and your incomplete hash tag ###
@aral @AngelaScholder @joynewacc @staff
I think its point 1,
A friend left mastodon entirely (im trying to get her back on, on mstdn.social.) because she posted a historical accurate, backed with sources, post about Jewish sholdiers in the Nazi army.
Not a hit piece, mind you, just historical facts, without blaming, just a "hey, this happend in the past"
And they deleted her post for "anti semitism"
@aral @AngelaScholder @joynewacc @staff so basically anything thats not dickriding Israel, is flagged as Antisemitism.
(Oh and i was bullied by "one of the good ones" when i was on that server, reporting it got me a warning, i was reporting his abusive bullying posts to frequently, and it was then celebrated he managed to "bully me off the server" )
@aral Sorry!
WTF!
Yes, I commented that it definitely was not the correct hastag, and I will again!
And that has nothing to do with the disgusting genocide, ethnic cleansing, and progroms done by the terrorist state of Israel!
The only people who can remove posts will be administrators of the instance where the post was placed. I'm not one!
As for Joy being a Palestinian or not, with a post out of the blue I have no way of confirming this is genuine or not.
As you may be aware that the >2
@AngelaScholder She’s part of our team at Gaza Verified and Gaza Verified wouldn’t exist if it hadn’t been for her selfless work to help others while facing genocide herself. Which you would have known if you were any sort of ally. Which you clearly are not.
@AngelaScholder @aral I hope you have never, ever made a typo in your life. Especially when you're under tons of stress and dealing with life-threatening shit.
Context matters here, holy shit.
Just seen her misspell something in Dutch. Should I report Karen for this? Of course, because she isn't Palestinian, she won't face the same consequences. That's what Karens count on, I guess.
Oh, Angela. I was half inclined to jump in and defend you here (and not just because you favourited my actual #DoctorWho post earlier today), but trying to tell Aral you had no way of confirming whether someone is genuinely a Palestinian facing genocide: that's careless. That. Is. Careless.
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