Nah, the average Lemming is just some leftist activist, so you don't really get what fully centrist / liberal actually means.

Right of centre by Lemmy standards, they're still pretty left compared to the real world.

So many things wrong with that statement, including the falsehood that only God can judge. We do have courts, including the court of public opinion.

yes i only banned for 24 hours so that more information could be found additionally there were directions that people encouraging, cheering, making joke of, discussing payment, or of jury nullification are against the terms of service for lemmy.world. as of now there is new information regarding this section of the terms of service which will be announced and explained by the admins. i am sorry to those that feel i was excessive we have discuss this among the moderators and will use the lock power to reduce the moderator workflow. for me i consider human life sacred and despite the mistakes of this person only God may judge us. i recognize my bias in this and will work to be more restrained going forward.

Ok, challenge accepted: every instance I come across from .world that has any indication of violence against anything living, well, I'll be reporting that, and I expect the mods to follow up on it quickly.

I'll start with the gardening instances, since plants do feel pain, and thus any pruning/harvesting/etc is an act of violence, and I'm surprised the .world mods haven't shut down such a violent instance.

Wait, they need to be banned outright, actually, because in order to garden, users are going to have to suggest that people dig into the dirt, and that's a pretty blatant call of violence against all organisms, including those at the microscopic level.

Better delete the woodworking instance too, since the only way to work with wood is to kill a tree and dismember its body, often skinning it immediately after it's been sawed off at the knees, juuuuuuust fresh enough to feel all the pain but not enough to fight back.

What an absolute joke.

Denying millions of legitimate claims that directly leads to many people being physically harmed or dying is violence on a large scale. So is lobying the government to keep healthcare in shambles for hundreds of millions of people.

It's a less visible, less gorey form of violence than a gun, but violence that begets mass suffering and death nonetheless.

The First Amendment right to freedom of speech in the USA applies to the relationship between citizens and the government's authority. Lemmy servers are not the US government, and Lemmy users must abide by the Terms of Service on the Lemmy servers they use.

It's that simple.

You still have the freedom to create your own server and host whatever content you want on there. Lemmy is open source I believe so you can go right ahead and federate your own free speech.

Side note, I'm not saying this to defend health insurance crooks. I'm currently dealing with several insurance problems with denied coverage myself. We can all see the motive of that hooded man clearly.

Can we please not turn this place into acronym soup like Reddit was in places?

You don't even save that much time.

TBD - Tyranny By Design