@geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml banned me from !ManufacturingConsent@lemmy.ml (permanently!) and removed my comment from the post, because I dared to note that there are protests in Iran and shared a link to a crimethinc article with voices from within Iran. They call it “imperialist propaganda” if leftist voices from within Iran are distributed.
My comment:
I get it that the western media narrative is incredibly one-sided, focused on ideological bogeymen and focused on getting the monarch back in power. But I’d like to point out that there is in fact quite massive repression going on against the protestors. Leftist orgs in Iran need international solidarity now.
Their “reasoning”:
reason: Ignoring the post to spam imperialist propaganda
I don’t think that person can be reasoned with if they call crimethinc imperialist propaganda, so I’m not getting my hopes up for them lifting the ban.
I also think that they might be a bit butthurt, because I called out their zionistic worldview (i.e.: that judaism equates zionism) a few days ago.
It’s an odd situation that we’re in where everyone understands that social media is swarming with bots and also are mostly unwilling to believe that it is affecting the social media that they personally use.
I don’t think that lemmy is a big enough target for that, frankly. It’s not like this is Twitter, instagram, bluesky or Facebook.
On the scale of intelligence agencies it requires very, very few resources to pay some minimum wage call center workers to manage moderator/admin accounts on every social media site where they’re capable of creating such accounts.
We know for a fact that they use Telegram channels, population around 80-100k, to push content. It doesn’t seem a stretch to think they’d be interested in communities on Lemmy with similarly sized userbases.
I mean, it could also just be people who have been conditioned by social media to be primed for outrage and self-righteousness or a mod having a bad day.
That being said, if there are bots on social media (and we know there are), where they would want to be and what they would want to be doing? Hosting a far left instance (or far right instance) is on brand as is forming an echo chamber by purging non-aligned members.
It may not be a duck, but it’s sure quacking and eating a lot of peas