Apparently there’s an issue with some instances banning users for criticizing authoritarian governments. Is lemmy.world a safe place to criticize governments?

  • GarbageShootAlt@lemmygrad.ml
    118·
    1 year ago

    Unfortunately I also saw the videos and pictures of tanks grinding bodies into pulp and washing them down drains shortly after this… That one certainly made me think.

    No you didn’t, because no such video exists. No such video exists because that story – of pulping bodies and “washing them down drains” – is ridiculous, impractical nonsense made up by someone who wasn’t even there (I forget if it was student leader Chai Ling or one of the reporters sitting in their Beijing Hotel room who is responsible for that specific gem, but both lied about witnessing things they weren’t there for).

    Why do you need to lie about what you have seen in order to defend your thesis? Aren’t these real and serious events that deserve to be treated with gravity? I don’t feel particularly inclined to speak so flippantly about the people who actually did die on June 4th – incidentally the day before the Tank Man video, which is of him obstructing tanks leaving the square.

    • Killface@lemmy.world
      111·
      1 year ago

      You may be right, that I am misremembering and it was just a stream of photos. But that doesn’t mean I intentionally lied or that the photos were any less gruesome.

      • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        113·
        1 year ago

        I doubt amy such photos exist either. If they did, surely Le Redditors would post those on the front page rather than those of wrecked bicycles or a man unharmed by a tank. Let me know if you find these photos instead of just reveling in fond memories of them.

        • Killface@lemmy.worldEnglish
          33·
          1 year ago

          They were posted on Reddit. Years back. Sure, the narrative of tank drivers running over civilians may have been exaggerated. I don’t know. But the pictures of maimed and burnt bodies definitely exist. If you want to see them so bad go search for them yourself. I have no desire to view those again.

          • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
            51·
            1 year ago

            I tried but I couldn’t find them. Since you were so sure you hadn’t dreamt them up and are not perpetuating folklores in the age of informarion I asked for your help. But if you are not willing to substantiate your very serious claims I understand.