• General_Effort@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    So, trying to parse what’s going on here.

    Bluesky has verified that an account claiming to belong to the US government agency ICE really is controlled by that agency. Somehow that shows that Mastodon is better. Because Trump has his own Mastodon instance and doesn’t need anyone to vouch for his goons?

    Looking at the comments, maybe the issue is rather that the Bluesky company provides services to ICE. Tech companies should refuse service. Huh. I guess there is more diversity of opinion on Lemmy than I had thought, regarding the power of tech companies, democracy, and law.

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      5 days ago

      it’s called guilt by assocation. it’s shitty and lame type of logical fallacy

      if you live on the same street as a nazi, you must be a nazi. because apparently you have to sell your home and move away if a nazi moves in.

      of course, if you do this and it’s a non-white person you are racist… and a bad person, but if you do it for a nazi you’re a good person.

      it’s not as if the logic of the thing is what at’s fault, and the accuser has hyperbolic sense of other people’s social obligations to appeal to their sensibility.

    • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOP
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      Bluesky is a centralized platform and their mods don’t ban Nazis.

      Trump being able to clone Mastodon is not the same as letting Trump on Mastodon.social