So I’m part of a discussion about moderation on lemmy.ml, and it seems better to ask the community directly instead of continuing to speculate from a distance: What’s the attitude here towards political debate and specifically criticism of the Chinese government? Is that allowed, or will mods delete it?
So… just FWIW, I’ve been talking about China and North Korea, a little bit, in posts on both lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml, and as far as I can tell nothing’s been deleted and I haven’t been banned. I’m not saying the moderation Habnab linked to didn’t happen, but that doesn’t mean it’s universal in the present day on lemmy.ml, and it hasn’t been my experience.
This post on lemmy.world actually was removed, but that seems more likely to do with “I don’t want this debate here” and less to do with “I object to one particular side of this debate.”
I’m still on the fence about the “Is this an actual problem” question, just sharing my data on it so far. YMMV