Better to be a Black guy in China than a Black guy in the US.

Their community policy is explicitly against the actions described in this post.

This seems like it could have been solved at the instance level by banning some emojis… So I guess I’m confused?

I still don’t agree with censoring political views that we disagree with. It’s a slippery slope, especially when these are REAL people that DO exist. They deserve to have their voice heard, even if it’s so they can be shit on.

Edit: is there no way to block individual users without defederation? It sounds like taking the nuclear option against a few bad actors. We should want to have our worldview challenged since that’s a core component of democracy.