That’s a lot, sorry to hear

We’ll see!

You might be waiting for probably around a year

issue of lack of free speech in the EU.

Misread that sentence in your comment

Discuss.online validates new accounts automatically without manual reviews if that can help

Found this article yesterday on that exact topic

While “hate speech” is not a legal term in the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that most of what would qualify as hate speech in other western countries is legally protected speech under the First Amendment.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_in_the_United_States

I hoped merely to help provide a “welcoming” and “fun” and “safe” place for Americans to enjoy visiting

As I said elsewhere, there’s a reason Ask and Casual communities both exist.

A list of questions that could be asked on AskUSA but would still be completely legal

• US Americans, what are your worst experiences with your healthcare insurance?
• US Americans, how big of a deal are school shootings in your daily lives? Is the media depiction overblown?
• US Americans, how is life on minimum wage?

None of those questions would cross any rules, but they would make the community look serious and depressing, but also would allow people to talk about those serious matters.

From what you are saying, you should probably handle a more laid-back CasualUSA community, similar to [email protected] , [email protected] , [email protected]

You can probably open a post to call moderators to take over AskUSA, and open CasualUSA in parallel

The new one looks promising!

Ah, indeed. I guess I was thinking about all the controversial nominations he already made, that could already have an impact on some people

I feel like we are having the same discussion in two different threads, but just to reply to this with a quote from another comment

And telling people that murder is okay - regardless of the rightness or wrongness of such (e.g. even if not serious but merely to lay off some steam) - seems to fall into that category?

That’s probably the core of the question. People in the LW thread were advocating that jury nullification for future crimes is legal in the USA. If it is, and if there is no clear rule on DO to prevent those (as far as I’ve checked, there aren’t, but happy to be wrong on this), there are two options

• add a rule similar to the LW one
• accept that people talk about jury nullification for future crimes

And isn’t social media supposed to be “fun”?

I would say it depends. I myself prefer casual communities, like [email protected], [email protected] etc. But I also know that some people are going to want to discuss “serious” topics, and that those also deserve their communities.

You might want to distinguish between AskUSA and a potential new CasualUSA, as in general, if you keep both content in AskUSA, the serious content will overwhelm the casual content.

If anyone wants to find a place to discuss illegal activities, it’s not so much that it’s impossible but it does sound like something better suited to an anarchist instance?

Quoting myself from another comment

I just had a look at https://join-lemmy.org/docs/code_of_conduct.html to check

We are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all, regardless of level of experience, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, nationality, or other similar characteristic.

So if people say “CEOs of private healthcare companies who cause the deaths of thousands of citizens for profit should face the same fate as the United Healthcare CEO”, is it acceptable or no? Real question, I don’t think it’s that clear from the rules.

Also, as those are the rules created by the Lemmy devs, I would really surprised if they prevented any action against CEOs

We probably want to inform @[email protected]

• https://lemmy.world/post/22931097
• https://lemmy.world/comment/13873514

Nice!

• https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/33032063
• https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/33032063/15268585

• https://lemm.ee/post/49335269
• https://lemm.ee/post/49335269/16743202

Discuss.Online is nowhere close to a complete free speech instance, as I see it.

I just had a look at https://join-lemmy.org/docs/code_of_conduct.html to check

We are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all, regardless of level of experience, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, nationality, or other similar characteristic.

So if people say “CEOs of private healthcare companies who cause the deaths of thousands of citizens for profit should face the same fate as the United Healthcare CEO”, is it acceptable or no? Real question, I don’t think it’s that clear from the rules.

Also, as those are the rules created by the Lemmy devs, I would really surprised if they prevented any action against CEOs

Same feeling here.

I’ve been trying to channel people to [email protected]

[email protected] banning questions about US politics is already helping

It’s YDI (you did it yourself) in this case

Things like AskUSA or USAFinances could go pretty much anywhere.

Hosting them on a US based instance seems better from a legal framework perspective, as we see with the clash between European and US legal cultures on LW

4chan

Oh no, definitely not. More like a community for US Americans to discuss without being subject to German laws, as it seems to be an issue from time to time

Against, not sure if this is political or not, as it goes beyond politics and more about the daily lives of US Americans