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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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[–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

I postulate that people posting comments in arabic languages on international news sites are by a large majority people who live in the respective countries outside of immigrants that still feel more connected to their country of origin than to the countries they are currently in, comparable to the fact that people posting in german are with a 95%+ probability coming from the DACH area or are immigrants into other countries.

No dogwhistle here. Specific languages point to specific geographic areas where these languages are prominently spoken, and if you are using german on the comment section of the bbc, people will rightly assume that you come from the DACH area.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    From the area, maybe, but that doesn't cover all opinions or diasporia that could be in an area.

    Speaking Arabic could mean about a third of world in land coverage or diaspora found all over the world. Its a poor catagorization. I mean not nearly as brain dead as phenotype like racists do, but still poor short hand for much.

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