Notices by Anders Baerbock (andersbaerbock@mastodon.social)

It was a mistake to arbitrarily silence Mr. Donald Trump in #Twitter. It was a democratic failure not to hold him accountable for his lies through the rule of democratically-made laws.

Technological platforms of #communication should never attempt to rule over the content, but merely abide by the laws of whatever democratic countries their infrastructure resides in.

The mistake is now repeated in #Mastodon with the censorship of a number of discussion subjects.
It is a grave shortcoming.

Hi @bossnass, check https://mastodon.social/about .
It is banned «homophobia, transphobia», which sounds reasonable. Nevertheless, in practice, anyone who expresses something not in line with the world-view of the moderators of Mastodon gets censored.

Thus, for instance, some months ago I posted «If you can pee standing upright because you have a penis then you go into the men's bathroom» —which is clearly related to hygiene in a public space and makes no assumptions— and that post got censored.