I found this just now after searching for related topics. This is still going on, my comments were removed and I was banned from two different communities for daring to say both Hamas and Israeli are bad (when the comments I was replying to were only blaming Israeli)

Censorship is very much alive across lemmy, and certain communities definitely seem to allow only one viewpoint to exist.

I made a summary where you can see my comments which were deleted and for which I was banned, and judge for yourself: lemmy.world/post/12344087

80 steps too far down the capitalism ladder

This is the result of capitalism - corporations (aka the rich selfish assholes running them) will always attempt to do horrible things to earn more money, so long as they can get away with it, and only perhaps relatively small fines. The people who did this face no jailtime, face no real deprecations - this is what unregulated capitalism brings. Corporations should not have rights or protect the people who run them - the people who run them need to face prison and personal consequences.

That leads us to John Gabrield’s Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory

I don’t have comments on the rest of your post, but I absolutely hate how that cartoon has been used by people to justify that they are otherwise “good” people who are simply assholes on the internet.

The rebuttal is this: This person, in real life, chose to go on the internet and be a “total fuckwad”. It’s not that adding anonymity changed something about them, they were the fuckwads to begin with, but with a much lower chance of having to be held accountable, they are free to express it.

In the US if you give a politician money in exchange for voting against a bill, it’s illegal (it’s legally called “quid-pro-quo”)

But if you just donate money to the politician, his family, or his campaign, without requesting anything - and then he “coincidentally” happens to vote against the bill which you didn’t want, it is perfectly legal.

Basically, many politicians are regularly doing something clearly unethical and corrupt in a technically “legal” way.

I only discovered it recently, and have been reading it when I’m bored and remember it. Also just discovered the Bill Watterson “cameo” - it is pretty amazing.

This guy specifically? He’s a racist asshole, who has been surrounded by other racist assholes and gotten support from them, so he has never learned that his behavior is unacceptable in a society that values freedom.

I went to highschool for 1 year in the UK, where a uniform was mandatory for every student.

I can assure you, it does not promote discipline in any way. Kids fight, do stupid things, and skip classes regardless of how they’re dressed.