It refuses to root out Nazis that use the platform in the name of âfree speechâ, and itâs happy to profit off of their use of the platform. They eventually partly backed down after a sustained campaign, but only agreed to ban a small number of prominent Nazi blogs without changing their general stance.
And of course, they draw the line on âfree speechâ at sexual content, including the blogs of sex workers. So the pro-Nazi stance starts looking less like a misguided principle of free speech (which would, frankly, be bad enough on its own) and more a decision to explicitly allow Nazis.
First: huh? Iâve never come across a Nazi on this platform. The one prominent Nazi instance was defederated very quickly by many other instances, including mine.
Second: thereâs a difference between having Nazis/being slow to remove them, and proudly declaring you wonât remove them. Both are bad, but one is so much worse. Reddit, for example, is the former. Very friendly to Nazi viewpoints, but will at least hurry to remove them once it starts getting media attention.
But most importantly: Lemmy isnât one site. Itâs a federation. You could at most talk about one instance or another, or a group of instances, which ârefuse to root out Nazisâ. Saying âLemmy refuses to root out Nazisâ is a sort of nonsense statement, like saying âthe Internet refuses to root out Nazisâ.
