Username checks out, I guess.

Though scientists don’t yet know how clownfish shrink, one idea is that they could be reabsorbing their own bone matter.

They. What?

It’s the operational reality of a herd mentality in the C suite across every major and semi-major software company, a C suite that cares much more about bullshit Gartner reports than what their underlings say, coupled with high-ranking marketing people who are addicted to Outlook and think everyone should be.

There are only two possible email providers in the world (apparently) and Red Hat is using Google, so they couldn’t possibly go for that. :)

In any case, if any Suse exec talks to you about digital sovereignty, be aware they don’t believe their own spiel. (The more traditional Linux dev folks think differently, to some degree. But, as elsewhere, the culture wars over that were largely won by the “business” part of the company.)

You don’t want to know how much Suse itself spends on MS365 and Windows licenses. :) All email to/from at-suse-dot-com is going through Exchange 365, and the majority of employees use Mac and Windows systems as their primary work systems, that’s true even for certain groups of developers.

There is a German law against the trivialization of Holocaust and other NS crime. These comparisons tend to run a high risk of such trivialization.

People comparing garden-variety police brutality with Gestapo are likely running afoul of the same law, fwiw.

StGB, § 130 (3) A custodial sentence not exceeding five years or a monetary penalty shall be imposed on anyone who publicly or in an assembly condones, denies or plays down an act of the kind described in Section 6 (1) of the International Criminal Code committed under the rule of National Socialism in a manner that is likely to disturb the public peace.

with

VStGB, §6 (1) Whoever, with intent to destroy in whole or in part a national, racial, religious or ethnic group as such [kills, abducts, etc.] shall be punished with life imprisonment.

Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

(Translation via DeepL.)

Please read the post first before trying to twist my words into something that isn’t there.

I don’t think I would outright delete it, if reasoned well. We are and have been deleting outright calls to violence in any case, on any topic though.

Alright, sorry then, I hadn’t seen the other comment. I thought you were arguing in practical rather than theoretical terms, and Hamas supposedly being a legitimate opposition is an argument I have seen before. Afaik, PLO has not been violent for decades.

Equating Hamas and Palestinians is very troublesome. While they are the group democratically elected to run Gaza, they are also a group that perversely uses Gazan civilians as human shields.

Equating Hamas and legitimate Palestinian resistance is also very troublesome. A propos nothing in particular, they performed the Oct 7 attack, largely against Israeli civilians. They can’t be much of a resistance group if they’re killing civilians and taking civilian hostages rather than actually resisting against an aggressor.

I see you read the APPD party program.

You should re-read my comment. There is no mention of words such as “allow” or “forbid” in it.

(Edit: Ok, maybe I shouldn’t wonder about downvotes in this thread anymore. But what the shit, folks. What Lumiluz wrote is a complete misinterpretation of what I wrote, and I guess in bad-faith too. I never wrote that any particular topic is forbidden—and I certainly did nothing to suggest that ESC must not be discussed just because non-European nations participate in it. I wrote that this community is centered on Europe, in a fairly broad sense.)

Where did I say posts about the middle-east are not allowed here if they are in relation to Europe?

Literally this whole discussion is happening under the premise that discussion on Palestine is restricted.

Restricted, as in “please don’t voice certain opinions here (some of them at closer inspection trollish/unsavory anyway)” but not restricted as in “don’t mention this particular topic”.

Yes, and I’ve stated, if legal concerns are so troubling there needs to be censorship on the topic, moving to a different instance outside of Germany

It’s not hard to start a community here. There are several !europe communities with non-German mods on non-German servers already, too.

But there’s no point in me, as a German, modding the kind of community you want.

Most specifically, legal issues arise when it can be concluded that you support a violent overthrow or eradication of the Jewish state of Israel. If you make it clear specifically that you do not support violence, I think it should be fine.

In that sense, the way I laid out the rules may lead to some overblocking.

To some degree we are going after insults against other participants of the community, obviously. Not primarily because it may be criminal but also because it changes the discourse of the community. The lucky legal bit when it comes to Trump/Vance though is that as far as I am aware, insulting foreign leadership figures is no longer criminalized.

Calling Trump a “fascist” is simply an accurate descriptor though. Calling him “poo poo orange diaper man” is juvenile bullshit but if it’s not 50% of the comment section, it’ll probably remain.

I have no interest in participating in a community

This is your first comment here anyway, isn’t it?

Ftr, I will eventually need to unlock those, I hope to get to that at the end of the day.

Thank you!

Not if it had that typo. ^^ On a more serious note: I find these hard to mod and harder to argue against. The guy is in a coalition with outright fascists because this is the only way to save his power; he at the very least tolerates all of Europe’s fascists to come to his government’s “antisemitism” conferences; he wages a war currently that is officially called a war of self-defense but has morphed into being transparently expansionist and genocidal.

I mean … feel free. (Unless you’re linking to really unsavory communities.)

The thing is, we’re not a Mid-East community anyway (thankfully, I would personally say–as I would be really out-of-depth there!). While this is an issue that may flare up occasionally, I don’t see it as a permanent hindrance to contribution.