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Mastodon.world cancels famous German author Kazim's posts - now he left Mastodon completely (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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[–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Irl if you "ban" something, like cigarettes, then it does not necessarily imply forever but it does sorta imply until the law is changed i.e. until further notice.

So then if you ban a person for a period of one week, the timeline needs to be delivered alongside the word - "banned for a week".

Which the OP did not do, and moreover (I am not sure if the post was edited or was always this way), seems to go out of its way to imply a permanent banning? Though the phrasing used was "cancels" rather than bans.

Well, perhaps it's a language issue, but this OP is also quite sensationalistic, so my fault I suppose for engaging with what is clearly an emotional rant rather than a piece of any substance (again, regardless of whether the original subject is true or not, I am saying that this post does a poor job describing what occurred).

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    (Just as reference towards your comment so that newcomers see the whole picture; I know you already replied to me and just want to offer the whole picture in the thread)

    From the Mastodon Docs:

    A Mastodon suspension (that is the type of ban seen in the screenshot) means the account is effectively deleted. The account no longer appears in search, the profile page is gone, and all of the posts, uploads, followers, and all other data are removed publicly. However, all the data is available in the admin back-end for a period of 30 days from suspension. This is to give the user an opportunity to work with instance admins to resolve any potential issues and have the account re-instated.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    In that case I'll repeat myself here as well😃:

    Ah thank you, this is a crucial piece of info that was needed to more properly understand how to interpret the OP. This post would have been better written to not assume that we the reader already knew all of that, but regardless, thank you for filling that in.

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