Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
A mod from World News@lemmy.world.
What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
I had my comment removed and received a one-day ban.
Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
Original post: Pope is in ‘critical’ condition after suffering ‘asthmatic respiratory crisis,’ Vatican says
Like many of us on Lemmy, I think the Catholic church is responsible for a lot of evil in the world, including the way they were/are directly involved in blocking access to contraception leading to the needless death of millions of Africans due to the AIDs epidemic, the endless cases of child sex abuse, along with the ongoing coverups, and honestly too many awful things to mention in detail here.
So I left a comment that said:
The Catholic church at this point has all the moral authority of a child sex cult.
Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.
Amend community rule 4 to remove the reference to religion. WTF is it doing there as a rule in a news community in the first place? Is LW being run as a theocracy now?
Rule 4: Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, ~~anti-religious,~~ or ableist will be removed. “Ironic” prejudice is just prejudiced.
The mod in question is also a religious weirdo (see below during a discussion about Luigi), so perhaps that is why they have the rule in place. But if that community not going to accept fair criticism of religion then it isn't a serious news community imo.
I fully acknowledge it wasn't a long ban and the rule was in place, so it was perhaps a BPR or YDI in that sense. But the rule shouldn't be there in the first place. How on earth is it justified? And looking at the other votes and comments on that post, it's clear that the the vast majority of folks hate the Catholics church as much as I do. So why is this mod running defence for the famously morally bankrupt Catholic church in a world news community?
It's literally the first thing that comes to mind when I think of the Catholic church tbh :(
I agree with your assessment, but in my view the moment we start shielding religions institutions from proper scrutiny and criticism, that's exactly the sort of thing that enables and leads directly to church cover-ups of child sex abuse, for example. In a functioning democracy, religious groups should have no special privileges beyond what applies to civil organizations.
In any other context, if someone brought up the leader of an organization that had its most trusted members raping children and the whole business actively covering for them and shielding them from justice, for decades, it would be the first thing people came back with.
And yes, shielding them from scrutiny for this kind of thing because they're special is exactly how the situation developed and went on for so long in the first place. Fuck 'em. If someone wants to be going out and doing God and good works, I'm all for that, I have no problem with it. Sincerely, I don't, I think it's really good. If they choose to be doing it within the organized structure of the Catholic Church, then they've chosen to join with child rapists and they need to be reminded of that frequently, without any kind of hemming or hawing.