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Mastodon.world cancels famous German author Kazim's posts - now he left Mastodon completely (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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If I understand it right, the moderator of the mastodon.world instance has blocked several posts by Hasnain Kazim, as Kazim reported yesterday on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/661473263/posts/10163657720033264/

Kazim is a quite famous and successful book author in Germany and something between left, conservative and liberal. He was journalist for the most important German weekly news magazine Spiegel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasnain_Kazim?wprov=sfla1

Canceling his posts is stupid and certainly completely exaggerated. To me from the external perspective it seems that the moderator is abusing his power. He is damaging free and respectful discussion. Furthermore, when a famous person like Kazim reports those experiences to his broad audience, who do not understand the functioning of the fediverse, the moderator also damages Mastodon in general significantly, it seems to me.

What do you think about this case ?

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[–] 28 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Maybe I am too dense to get this, but how exactly can you be between left, conservative and liberal? Is that being centrist?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    What do those words mean? They are far to broad. What does my opinion on Tariffs have to do with my opinion on health care?

    Classical liberal (but not liberal) at least has meaning - lets not kill each other even though we are of different religions (and in the last 200 years expanded to: lets not hold slaves and lets allow women to have rights). However because that is so broad there is lots of room for disagreement on details within that category.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Being left on immigration, while supporting right wing legislation towards minorities that bring antidemocratic or anti-human-rights-sentiments and refuse to integrate into german society. These immigrants continue to create parallel societies where things like honor killings and application of sharia law are if not endorsed at least accepted.

    The liberal part is probably market-liberal.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago*

    I am often called a centrist... I hold views the left and the right both despise, I agree with one here and the other there. In USA we are officially "independents" and are the majority of voters (40% independents, 30% Democrat ("left"), 30% Republican.

    "independents" also include all other political parties (Greens, Libertarians, Socialists, et al), which are more active locally than federally.

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