Hi all.
First, thanks for reading. I’m not exactly sure if this is the correct location to raise a concern about a ban/deletion, but I guess it’s as good as any.
So:
- I dont know which mod it was. Log is redacted?
- post deleted & banned from the News@Lemmy.world community
- screenshot of modlog attached
- screenshot of comment attached.
- It was an appreciated post with 106 upvotes 26 downvotes at deletion and several positive responses yesterday. When I came back today (I’m in Australia so timezones…) the comment was deleted and I was banned - and several negative comments have appeared which I would have liked to respond to.
Original post: a news article about Proton Mail.
My post: Essentially I took the time to read the article and included the quotes of what was written by the CEO that was being discussed in the article - as many in the comments had surprised me by jumping straight to him being a literal Nazi. As not a single other commenter had included the quotes to discuss the source, I thought that would be a valuable contribution. I also gave my opinions which you can see in the comment on the modlog, the formatting is messed up so I included a screenshot of the (recreated) comment. https://lemmy.world/modlog/1347
What I didn’t notice was that the article writer had omitted the first part of the Twitter post from the CEO in her quotation of him - so I quoted her, and in doing so missed the context that the CEO had actually started “Great pick by @realDonaldTrump” at the start - which does of course change the context of his Twitter post to praise. This was clarified for me in the angry responses. I would have edited my comment and owned my mistake, however stood by the rest of the comment regarding Proton’s official follow-up.
So, is that deletion and ban fair?
Update 10 hours later: contacted a mod directly to see if i can find out more about the ban or perhaps get it remedied.
The point is that they are supposed to be a neutral party. It doesn’t matter if they are pro-Trump or not, what matters is that they are a fucking privacy service. I don’t want my privacy beholden to any party affiliation. I don’t want to worry if my information is going to be sold to whomever the party-du-jour is. I want the security that comes with the understanding that my privacy is what is most important to them. When they get on a rant about who does what and to whom, I have to wonder if that means that they’ll serve my info up on a silver platter when I start getting emails from a party they don’t like. I don’t give a fuck what they said about either party, what I give a fuck about is what any of it means for the information that passes through their system. I need some aspect of my fucking life to be party agnostic. As it stands, I’m not even sure I can count on my fucking refrigerator to not report back what brands of beer I buy because some company may or may not support Trans rights. Just give me a goddamned moment’s peace while I filter my junk mail.
While I agree with you for the most part, actually none of that is the point of this post - the point was is it valid to delete my post as ‘spam’ and ban me.