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Please fix Rule 1. (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by remotelove@lemmy.world to c/support@lemmy.world
 

A shroom community was removed from lemmy.world as it was considered "illegal" content by the admins. The logic behind this is boggling, to say the least.

Marijuana is considered an illegal substance in some states in the US and is still federally illegal. /c/trees should be banned, correct?

Clown pictures of Putin are absolutely considered illegal in Russia, so that should require and immediate ban.

Freedom of speech can also be considered illegal in some places.

Incest is considered illegal so that should automatically trigger a ban on all incest porn, real or not. Hell, porn is universally taboo, so that shouldn't have any place on this instance, I guess.

You see where I am going with this? Rule 1 is a catch-all and needs clarification. Simply saying something is illegal is not quite enough. Owning and sharing pictures of shrooms is not illegal. Trading spores or mycelium is generally not illegal either.

This is not about me being salty (which I am) about the community being removed and forced to relocate. It's the odd bias that was applied to justify its removal.

Please note that I said fix Rule 1, not remove it. There are some really bad things on the internet that shouldn't use lemmy as a safe haven.

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[โ€“] Zuberi@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bring back piracy and shrooms or I'm fucking out of here

[โ€“] pozbo@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Ditto.

Attention lemmy.world admins; don't become a spez, that fire is still burning.