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1. Eugen 🎄 (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Mar-2022 08:21:52 UTC Eugen 🎄

   I'm curious how other server administrators are handling users' reports of various degrees of pro-Russia content at the moment. Despite my personal position on the matter, I don't think any of our current server rules cover this situation, and while I am not certain if they should, the reports do keep coming.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Mar-2022 08:21:51 UTC Aral Balkan

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     @Gargron I can confirm that there is no pro-Russia content on my instance ;)

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   • Baloo Uriza (baloouriza@social.tulsa.ok.us)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Mar-2022 08:23:30 UTC Baloo Uriza

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     @Gargron Why would you *want* to platform right-wing authoritarian extremists?

   • claus (claus@mastodon.com.br)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Mar-2022 08:25:25 UTC claus

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     @Gargron Most Brazilian instances have these in their CoCs:

     - Apologia a governos totalitários (defense of totalitarian regimes)
     - Xenofobia e/ou nacionalismo extremista.
     - Desinformação intencional ("fake news").

     That kind of content will get you banned without warning.

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   • Eugen 🎄 (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Mar-2022 08:28:08 UTC Eugen 🎄

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     • Nathan R

     @nate Resolution from 2014, put forth by Russia, which has got an eye for the Baltic states and Ukraine, and invaded Georgia shortly prior. The EU abstained from that vote too. If Ukraine is a nazi state, wouldn’t you have something more tangible than a UN vote on an obscure resolution to show for it?

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   • Eugen 🎄 (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Mar-2022 08:28:11 UTC Eugen 🎄

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     • Nathan R

     @nate Do you have evidence of Ukraine being any more "nazi" than any other country in the region, incl. Russia? By what metrics are you measuring it?

   • Nathan R (nate@ploptodon.com)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Mar-2022 08:28:11 UTC Nathan R

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     @Gargron Only 3 countries, USA, Ukraine and Palau didn't vote for the resolution, "Combating glorification of Nazism, Neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance,". If you're against that then you're a Nazi.

   • Nathan R (nate@ploptodon.com)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Mar-2022 08:28:12 UTC Nathan R

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     @Gargron Ukraine is too Nazi for me so I don't allow pro-Ukraine or pro-Russia propaganda. Only anti-war rhetoric allowed.

   • Nathan R (nate@ploptodon.com)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Mar-2022 08:33:11 UTC Nathan R

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     So because Georgia was liberated then it's okay to be pro-Nazi? There's been many chances to vote for it. As far as tangible, a dam was built to deprive civilians of 85% of their fresh water supply in Crimea. Slavyansk civilians were bombed by incendiary bombs which is strictly prohibited by the UN. Atrocity after atrocity. Russia is too patient and now Russia is therefore exercising the responsibility to protect. My belief: more patience required before risking global thermonuclear war.

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Mar-2022 08:33:11 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Nathan R
     @nate When Russia leaves the occupied regions of Abkhasia and South Ossetia, Georgia will be liberated of Russian occupation.
   • Nathan R (nate@ploptodon.com)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Mar-2022 08:49:51 UTC Nathan R

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     • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

     @clacke hillarious

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Mar-2022 08:49:51 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Nathan R
     @nate Is Georgia Nazi too?
   • Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Mar-2022 09:05:45 UTC Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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     @Gargron If folk are reporting it, that's one way of telling you you've gotta have a rule, and asking you for help.

     You can also ban anyone you like at any time whether they've technically broken a rule or not; it's just a website, and mastodon is even more Just A Website because folk can pack up and move to another instance pretty easily, assuming they can find a non-Russian pro-Russia server.
     https://mastodon.social/@ifixcoinops/105778289798706182

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   • Eugen 🎄 (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Mar-2022 09:06:10 UTC Eugen 🎄

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     • Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

     @ifixcoinops Even if I technically have the right to ban anyone, it does not exactly foster trust if there is no consistency and it's not predictable. That's why I'd rather have clear rules.

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