In response to a submission linking to a video of pertinence to monsters in the Bible, a commentator proposed the Jews.
- That's not against the rules.
- It's not spam.
- It's not racist.
- It's not hate speech.
It's an objective, contextual and valid statement of fact.
The video itself examines monsters, terrible creatures, mythical beasts and tribes, specifically, The Nephilm. Relevant excerpt from video transcript:
the passage refers to the mixing of two human tribes: ‘godly’ people descended from the good-guy Seth and the somewhat less godly descendants of bad-guy Cain.
A discussion of the Jewish people was not only relevant, moreover, it was absolutely intrinsic to the discussion of the hypothesis. Voat users should be able issue critical utterance of the Jewish people, especially in historical/theological/mythological contexts, without the fear of:
- Submission/comments deletion.
- Being misnomered as spammers, Nazis, racists or agents of hate speech/crime.
- Being shamed, lectured, insulted and aggressively confronted by politically-correct SJW/NPC mods.
Nonetheless, the subverse "owner", @diesel4420, deleted the comment.
Sources:
The current subverse owner is a sleeper-agent SJW:
- @diesel4420 is a proud socialist who can be found evangelising the benefits of socialism to v/politics. E.g. 75 Ways Socialism Has Improved America
- @diesel4420 views anything right of his polarized left-leaning cultural-Marxist ideologies as "racist", "hateful" or "Nazism".
- @diesel4420 is a wolf-in-sheep's-clothing. First, he ascertained ownership of prominent subverse with >13k subscribers. Secondly, he censors free speech using his arbitrary definition of "hate speech" as pretext, a standard that he admittedly does not commit himself to. Thirdly, he's currently engaged in attacking and shaming all Voat members that champion free speech.
It's a dangerous Orwellian culture and dangerous precedence for Voat
Such a moderating style fosters an SJW culture synonymous with NPCs, "wrong think", communism, socialism, Marxism, identity politics, political correctness etc.
The concern is the "domino effect" or the idiomatic expression: "The thin end of the wedge." Exponentially aggressive political correctness at the hands of unchecked SJW/NPC socialist mods will overspill into the policies and governing of peripheral subverses. It happened on Reddit. It'll happen here if not nipped in the bud.
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WakkoWarner ago
I don't follow this sub so i have pretty much no idea about what you are talking about, but as a general rule of the thumb here on Voat personal subs (non system-subs) like /v/theunexplained are not usually subject to any special rule for the admins and moderators (beside, of course, what violates the terms of service of Voat or what is plainly illegal), or at least not that i know of. In other words, whoever is the owner of the sub, decides which rules to apply, even if they are stupid or laughable. If you don't agree with the moderation style of a subverse you are free to create a different sub where your own rules apply.
Said this... of course i don't agree with any kind of censorship and i think that moderators and sub-owners on Voat should respect the free speech of Voat's users because this is what makes Voat different, special and important and sets it apart from other cesspools online. This is why i like Voat and this is why i am not a user of other social networks or mainstream websites. If it was for me nothing beside doxxing, systematic user bashing and outright defamation should be censored, including any kind of pictures, videos, texts, audios, ideas, subjects, etc. Even hard-core fights between users should not be censored. It is a shame that some moderators and sub-owners treat their users as little children that need to be punished and scolded for using "bad words" or expressing "bad ideas" or "bad opinions" and it is certainly against the spirit of Voat.
FecalDemiurge6000 ago
But we're also free to make snarky comments about his mom until he bans us.
WakkoWarner ago
That's true.
FecalDemiurge6000 ago
And bigfoot porn. We can post bigfoot porn. As long as it's not doctored it's within the rules I think.