Disagree as much as you want, but assuming you’re a user, will you keep using it? This isn’t a whoopsie, or unexpected. As you pointed out, it will happen again. And it was always the safe, profitable choice for them - they’re a for-profit business beholden to VC money, not a political organisation or community project like Mastodon/Pleroma/etc.

It’s far easier to make that decision before they gain critical mass like twitter and reddit did.

My naive guess is that if the Turkish government ban access to BlueSky for not complying, that cuts into user count and therefore profitability.

I highly recommend reading Manufacturing Consent^[wiki]. It’s easy to find free online. It explains how mass media is systematically filtered by five major factors, the first being ownership, which is more and more relevant every year as media outlets consolidate under the ownership of billionaires like Murdoch, Bezos, Musk and Bloomberg, who have very different material class interests to the other 99.99999[…]% of the population.

Speaking of Australia:

https://www.betootaadvocate.com/humans-of-betoota/tesla-owner-sticks-this-on-their-car-like-they-werent-already-a-complete-and-utter-dick-hole-beforehand/

It doesn’t help that the original comic says that exact word as the punchline.

An Australian anti-fascist perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ2KvtlLJyQ

Nazis aren’t “people you disagree with”. They’re anti-social violence-worshippers, and in this Australian context, terrorists grooming children. The main Australian neo-Nazi group literally had leadership get caught applying for a job in disability services when they said they only wanted to work cases for young boys[1]. ASIO have emphasised the decreasing age of NSNs membership. Their strategy, like many neo-Nazi orgs, is to indoctrinate and recruit disaffected and alienated teenagers.

Yes.

It’s kinda weird to sort of start rolling back to where some type of conservatism is actually a good thing.

For what it’s worth, politics is more complex than conservation and change. The status quo is what got us here, so we must to better than merely conserve.

Apples and oranges. A nazi salute is not a racial comment. It’s a signal of allegiance to extermination (which, by the way, extermination is physically violent).

The idealistic fantasy that we should permit the intentional organisation of Nazism is not an effective way to preserve liberty of speech. Australia has no intention of becoming the failing pseudo-liberalist state that the USA is. So if the law doesn’t stop them, our communities will continue to step up and silence them ourselves.

A Nazi salute is a form of hate crime against Jewish people, would it also be illegal to use Racial Slurs?

Why would it? One does not imply the other.

Also, a Nazi salute isn’t just a slur. It’s (at least) signaling that you want a bunch of groups exterminated (Jews are one of those many groups).

Why not execute them?

Pragmatic constraints.

The main Australian neo-nazi organisation has known connections to ‘bikie’ gangs, so you’ve hit the mark here too.

The best answer, while it’s still an option, is to continue community anti-fascist action against them. [enjoy1] [enjoy2]

Nah I’d say crickets because OP is banned from instances like lemmy.ml, and as a result, most MLs won’t even see 0x815’s constant stream of propaganda. Win-win, I guess.

Condorcet

Nice.

edit: for those who aren’t aware