I strongly suspect this was AI slop.

Best option would be to send all pro-genocide Hexbear users to the camps in Xinjiang (as per their claims nothing bad is happening, so they shouldn’t have any issues with this).

The GreyZone stuff is BS though. Do they even speak Ukrainian in the GreyZone?

It’s legitimate to dismiss commentary about a country from individuals (especially Americans) who can’t even be bothered to learn the country’s language. So this is not a matter of “priors”.

FWIW, I think the term “echo-chamber” is way overused, almost to the point of being meaningless. I also don’t believe in the sincerity and coherence of American-style conceptions of “free speech”.

“Fediverse shouldn’t allow convervatives communities” is nuts though. This is not workable from a practical perspective (forget the moral questions for a second).

Racism, overt dehumanisation, denial of widely accepted mass scale human rights abuses; that’s something that can be managed from a moderation standpoint. But this would impact groups across the political spectrum (nazies, tankies, some far right, some far left).

Don’t know why this was downvoted.

I likely have an even more cynical take on American “conservatives” than those who are often labelled woke (and paradoxically I don’t always agree with), yet I don’t see the big deal with having a conservative community/instance or whatever.

I mean, Lemmy is rife with tankies; it doesn’t get much worse than that.