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Update to Terms of Service + New Bylaws (Protections for users) - Lemmy.World
lemmy.worldHey all, In light of recent events concerning one of our communities (/c/vegan),
we (as a team) have spent the last week working on how to address better some
concerns that had arisen between the moderators of that community and the site
admin team. We always strive to find a balance between the free expression of
communities hosted here and protecting users from potentially harmful content.
We as a team try to stick to a general rule of respect and consideration for the
physical and mental well-being of our users when drafting new rules and revising
existing ones. Furthermore, we’ve done our best to try to codify these core
beliefs into the additions to the ToS and a new by-laws section. ## ToS
Additions That being said, we will be adding a new section to our “terms of
service” concerning misinformation. While we do try to be as exact as reasonably
able, we also understand that rules can be up to interpretation as well. This is
a living document, and users are free to respectfully disagree. We as site
admins will do our best to consider the recommendations of all users regarding
potentially revising any rules. Regarding misinformation, we’ve tried our best
to capture these main ideas, which we believe are very reasonable: - Users are
encouraged to post information they believe is true and helpful. - We recommend
users conduct thorough research using reputable scientific sources. - When in
doubt, a policy of “Do No Harm”, based on the Hippocratic Oath, is a good
compass on what is okay to post. - Health-related information should ideally be
from peer-reviewed, reproducible scientific studies. - Single studies may be
valid, but often provide inadequate sample sizes for health-related advice. -
Non-peer-reviewed studies by individuals are not considered safe for health
matters. We reserve the right to remove information that could cause imminent
physical harm to any living being. This includes topics like conversion therapy,
unhealthy diets, and dangerous medical procedures. Information that could result
in imminent physical harm to property or other living beings may also be
removed. We know some folks who are free speech absolutists may disagree with
this stance, but we need to look out for both the individuals who use this site
and for the site itself. ## By-laws Addition We’ve also added a new by-laws
section as well as a result of this incident. This new section is to better
codify the course of action that should be taken by site and community
moderators when resolving conflict on the site, and also how to deal with
dormant communities. This new section provides also provides a course of action
for resolving conflict with site admin staff, should it arise. We want both the
users and moderators here to feel like they have a voice that is heard, and
essentially a contact point that they can feel safe going to, to “talk to the
manager” type situation, more or less a new Lemmy.World HR department that we’ve
created as a result of what has happened over the last week. Please feel free to
raise any questions in this thread. We encourage everyone to please take the
time to read over these new additions detailing YOUR rights and how we hope to
better protect everyone here. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/#80-misinformation
[https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/#80-misinformation]
https://legal.lemmy.world/bylaws/ [https://legal.lemmy.world/bylaws/] Sincerely,
> FHF / LemmyWorld Operations Team — EDIT: We will be releasing a separate post
regarding the moderation incident in the next 24-48 hours, just getting final
approval from the team. ### EDIT 2 (2024-08-31): #### We’ve posted a response,
sorry for the delay.
#### 👉 https://lemmy.world/post/19264848 [https://lemmy.world/post/19264848] 👈
Previous Hexbear post on this issue by @ButtBidet@hexbear.net
That post is wild just carnist after carnist whining
Bewildered Carnist
“What the fuck is “vegan cat food”? I sometimes can’t understand people.”
“Ok. I get it. As people, we are bad. We mass husbandry just for food, modifying them with artificial selection for productivity. So I can understand veganism (although I am not vegan).”
“But have we really reached the point where we stop animals from eating meat? Either I’m a bigoted idiot or people are out of their minds.”
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Brave Poster
“For me, the purpose of the post is exactly what it asks for. I don’t think I’ve ever posted to !vegan except for today, to cross-post the OP, but my own fate as an active lemmy.world user likely rests on the outcome of this request. I run a tiny community that has no relation to animal rights or ethics but I feel it is absolutely threatened when there are moderators like Rooki that act based on their views rather than the rules.”
Smug Carnist
“That vegan community has a rule against misinformation. The idea that a cat is perfectly healthy on a vegan diet is misinformation. You feel threatened by mods like Rooki who act based on rules rather than your views. You’d rather mistreat animals than admit that anything any vegan has ever said ever might be wrong, and not allow anyone to point out that your wrong.”
Concern troll Carnist
People are out of their minds. It’s a cult. Thankfully, mostly constrained to the west.
Famously some British folks invented caring about animal rights in 1940 or whenever. There has never been any large or long lived philosophical movements against the eating of animals outside the west. Certainly there are no religions that take non violence to mean that people should eat plant based. None at all. Outside britian and the vegan cult that is.